WOWIE!!! That’s some great feedback! The crystal was originally implemented in order to prevent players from just running away from the enemies. All enemies move pretty slow and can be easily outran by the player and, since all enemies have a windup attack pattern, it’ll mean the player rarely gets damaged and can dodge all day long, but I see where you’re coming from. Those stupid green bats just suck to take advantadge of!!!! (which is bad on my part lol)
This isn’t explained in game, but the Glitch Gun will actually make an enemy “angry” which means that they will focus on ONLY YOU for 5-10 seconds if they are hit by a bullet. This means that you can spam some shots at all the enemies that are attacking the crystal to temporarily make them focus on you allowing you to do your crazy setups with the green bats. I thought about adding an indicator to show that the enemy was angry or explaining it in the tutorial but alas I didn’t have time to do that.
Thanks for the feedback! :)