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I come here bearing what is hopefully insightful comments about the new levels after risking life and limb in the quest against the dastardly frogs.

I'm just rambling like an idiot. I beat all the levels, it took me about 1 hour and over half of that was spent staring at level 7: Fugitive, but more on that later.

A moving frog opens up a lot of possibilities and I think the first few levels establish what you can do with them reasonably well. Looking back, the most obvious utility for them should be holding down buttons but the most intuitive mechanic for me personally was the fact that you can use frogs to block other frogs which comes in handy later in level 8: Rude. By the way, the animation for when the blue frog gets tongued is hilarious.

The least intuitive mechanic comes into play in level 4: Big Enough, where I admit I was attempting to murder a frog in cold blood by dropping it into the stratosphere. Instead, I learned that toggleable platforms can't be toggled off if a frog is standing on them. Perhaps the idea was that the player would want to kill the frog after losing to many fairies to them which I hope is the case because otherwise it makes me look like a psycho, but I found it generally non intuitive. Platforms that you can toggle on and off are already an abstract concept to begin with so it's weird to pile on even more game logic on top of them in my opinion.

As I mentioned before, the next big roadblock was level 7: Fugitive. What I did was the following: 

1. Throw blue fairy north on top of red button.

2. Walk over north with strong fairy. Place strong fairy on red button.

3. Poke blue frog.

4. Lure blue frog on top of the red blocks with blue fairy.

5. While the blocks are held down because of the frog, walk the strong fairy to the right of the blue frog and stand on top of the blue button.

6. Lure blue frog further south (beyond the red blocks) with blue fairy.

7. Take arrow to the left and complete the level.

I'm not sure if I beat the level as intended because I never touched the platform to the right and it doesn't seem clear at a glance that you should be able to walk past the frog in the center. I guess a frog is around 2 tiles wide and the strong fairy is around 1 tile wide, but still. I don't think I've ever seen red herrings being used so I that's why I'm sharing my solution.

Every other level is pretty straightforward. I can only speak for myself but level 8: Rude could be earlier because, as I hinted at before, feels unusually easy, but that's only my opinion. 

Great work as always.

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Thanks for playing again and the detailed feedback!

Looking back, the most obvious utility for them should be holding down buttons but the most intuitive mechanic for me personally was the fact that you can use frogs to block other frogs

Yeah the testing had me realize thats the case. Strange thing because tongue blocking is something I added less than a month ago, the toad was designed for pressing buttons. I will embrace the intuitiveness of tongue blocking, seems like the better option.

The least intuitive mechanic comes into play in level 4: Big Enough, where I admit I was attempting to murder a frog in cold blood by dropping it into the stratosphere. Instead, I learned that toggleable platforms can't be toggled off if a frog is standing on them.

Toads have the thickest plot armor. Nothing can hurt them. I prefer it this way, though it make things like the platform behave in unexpected ways. I don't see any other solution, so it will be a quirk of the system.

level 7: Fugitive

Congrats! You found an unintended solution! I thought of the possibility of solving the puzzle like that, but I believed it was impossible. Thanks for proving me wrong. I updated the level (v023b) to make it more straightforward.

frog is around 2 tiles wide and the strong fairy is around 1 tile wide

The toads are 3 tiles long, the fairies are less than 1. I realized through testing that the size of toads is not very intuitive, which means I will have to make levels to better teach the concept.

I can only speak for myself but level 8: Rude could be earlier because, as I hinted at before, feels unusually easy, but that's only my opinion. 

I will do it, looks better than what I was going for.