Thank you very much for your detailed feedback! I’m glad to hear that you still enjoyed most of the game despite the genre not being your usual choice. Congratulations for beating it with a trackpad as well! I playtested the game with a trackpad a couple of times myself, to make sure it is still beatable in that manner - I glad that payed off :)
The levels are short enough that they can be beaten by luck. But having longer levels would have been quite frustrating due to dying in one mistake and having to replay the whole level.. I’m not sure what we could have done about that. But I would love to have a suggestion :)
And as for the intended level solution:
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None of the playtesters found the solution. It’s one of my least favorite levels. Usually we try to make the intended solution significantly easier and safer than a straight up fight with the turrets, but fighting the turrets here isn’t much harder..