Thanks for the feedback. you have several valid points and people have said that the controls are awkward to use. Could you recommend me a keyboard layout that would work better? In my experience the wall jumps are mostly reliable its just that its not properly explained how to use them; when simply sliding down a wall and pressing the space key and no directional keys the player will do a small wall jump opposite of the wall, if they are holding A/D when doing a wall jump they will go further.
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I'd say shift to switch between mode is pretty intuitive, at least that is what I defaulted my game to. then everything else can be bound to space, that being the jump, wall jump and dash. (dash is only available in dark mode so it shouldn't overlap with double jump)
Obviously it would be perfect if you had key rebinding and controller support but just having one button for switch mode and dash and wall/double jump on the jump button would make a huge difference alone.
As for the wall jump, I noticed that you have to wait for the slide but sometimes I still got a double jump instead. Maybe I was pressing the opposite direction to early or I wasn't close enough to the wall and was pressing walljump without entering slide state.
Whatever it was I think that having to wait a second to enter sliding feels a bit weird. I assume you can only enter wall sliding state from falling and that may be the issue but I could be fully off base here.
Thanks for the suggestion. Switching mode being bound to the shift key sounds like a good idea. I cannot bind the dash key to space because dark can still jump once; this would mean that you could only dash once you jump which would be a bit awkward. Regarding the delay between being able to wall jump I will try to see what might be causing that and try to make it more responsive.