If the puffer does scale, it has a cap (which is fine, it shouldn't cover the whole screen or anything) that is already reached when you finally get to them. This is definitely the case in the shark free mode.
Been playing the new update pretty regularly. I really like how the game feels right now. About the only critiques I have are regarding the power up fish. The Eel and Cajun fish are still my most used fish. The Puffer and the Squid don't offer any real benefits over the other two to make me go out of my way to use them.
It would be nice if the mermaid didn't have a swallow animation during the duration of the Puffer fish power. It'd be nice for the suction size to scale with the size of the mermaid as well. Allowing the mermaid to eat sharks one size bigger than normal would be cool too.
I actively avoid the squid powerups. It would be nice if there was some distinguishing feature that allowes you to easily tell the clones from your mermaid. It would also help if the clones spawned behind your mermaid in the layer order. I don't know how hard this would be to do, but if the clones had something like the ability to swim and eat fish for you, that would really make the squid power stand out. It would also make the squid power useful in the shark free mode.
You're doing a great job. Thanks for your efforts!
Love the update, and most of the changes made by the patch. The only thing I don't enjoy is the "boyancy" effect at larger sizes. Moving slower at larger sizes makes sense, but the boyancy makes it impossible to move down after a certain point.
I was suggesting that only the golden fish couldnt be cooked. I also suggested that perhaps the heart fish boxes could protect the heart fish from being cooked just once and break when hit with the flames, releasing the heart fish. I find that at larger sizes, it's very hard to not hit the Golden fish and the Heart Fish with the Cajun flame burps.
Super fun game! I always look forward to your updates. I do have aome critiques for the special fish, namely the Cajun fish, and the Golden fish.
I find myself avoiding the Cajun fish because they turn the Golden fish and Heart fish to the cooked meat. Perhaps you would consider making it so the Golden fish don't get cooked by the flame burps? And perhaps the Heart fish box would protect the Heart fish from one flame burp, and then it breaks?
And if you're looking for ideas around mermaid recolors, would you consider using the sprites for the Eel and Cajun fish mermaids as aquireable skins? Perhaps each fish (eel/cajun) could get a small buff from the corresponding skin.
