Loving all the new collectibles and stuff, but those swinging grappling hooks frustrated me. I don't understand how I'm supposed to control my direction or momentum with them? The arrow keys seem to have some sort of effect with my grappling hook being pulled in or my momentum being affected but I couldn't figure out what the recipe was and gave up.
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Thanks for playing! I originally had the swinging grappling hooks work as a swing would work: lean back to move forward, lean forward to move back. I found through playtest feedback that this was too busy and it confused people, leaving them with little to no momentum. So now it will start leaning for you in the direction you would swing, meaning in practice you just need to press/release `Z` to interact with it during most cases -- no leaning with the arrow keys required.
What could I do better to communicate this? What would you recommend I do to fix it so you wouldn't have given up?
Ok I played again and as long as I didn't touch any arrow keys while swinging I could make it through. But this time I think I went a different route through City 2 so I didn't hit the part that frustrated me before.
I think the issue happens because I like to hold the up arrow the entire time I'm driving to keep momentum. But the swinging seems to lose momentum when I'm still holding up arrow.
I got to the end, the story is getting wild! I feel like mechanics get introduced really fast, each world could have way more levels to explore the mechanics more. Also now that I have a rocket it feels like the game changed from a trials type game to a rocket booster type game? Like the rocket mechanic overrides all the other mechanics.