It took me a lot of tries to figure out how to get past the spike pit in the second level without taking damage. I thought you had to drop down and hook onto the dirt tile at the edge; make the metal go all the way up.
That is possible. You need to throw the hook shortly before even walking off the edge for it to work though.
I still hate these enemies that stick to walls and fly across to the opposite side. Getting past them feels like pure trial and error, at least with the way they're used, and if they end up on the wrong side, you're forced to take damage a lot of the time.
I tested getting past all of them with them on the wrong side. It is possible, just nonsensically hard for a lot of them :^)
The sprite of the wall enemies should show if they're ready to fly across or not. I died because I tried to bait one too early.
That would probably help. I wanted to add some animation frames to them for some time now. They look pretty static compared to the other enemies I have now.
I might just slow them down some.
The death animation can put you in the goal area and it'll count as beating the level. The transition animation plays again once you're already back on the level select screen.
That goes on the pile of the myriads of issues with the player controller. I'm amazed it works at all at this point.
Broke the crate in the cliffside level and the helmet fell out of the level.
That's an intentional troll for once. Gotta break it from the other side.
That first part of the cliffisde level where you have to do two nearly pixel-perfect jumps to avoid hitting your head on first the enemy and then the dirt above it is incredibly obnoxious.
See my reply to Vesuvius, that was never intended to be cleared by a normal jump. Maybe a bit advanced of a mechanic to introduce in the fifth level. There's actually a similar jump early in the volcanic level across lava, you can just take a shortcut to bypass it though.
It seems impossible to make it to the platform with the crate in the cliffside level without hooking onto the crate. What are you supposed to do if you fall down after breaking it?
Go to the right from the double-wide fan. There's a horizontal fan that'll push you left towards the lantern. Using the crate is a shortcut.
The lack of input buffering for jumping before the hook has connected makes the game feel really unresponsive.
There is some, I'll try playing with the length of it.
What's the point of letting you drop down to the ant at the start of the mushroom level? The wall enemy makes it seem like there's something there, and you can't get back without taking damage.
That part of the level used to be designed differently. You'd fall down there if you failed a tricky jump, not possible anymore of course.
What in the hell are you supposed to do here? I don't see how there's any way you could get up there or break the lantern.
Dunno if you still want input on that front, but this kind of levels are way better than the semi-open world.
I don' t really need it as I'm locked in to the linear ones but I appreciate hearing that others prefer them as well.
Very nice polish overall with transitions and sound. New ant enemies are super fine, but remember to add animantion on hook/stun.
They will get them. I'm just trying to figure out what I wanna do gameplay-wise when it comes to hook interaction with them, like the stun you proposed.
cute tutorial, strange decision on what you are explaining. you are half way into "I only give you controls, and gl" and, "let's explain everything".
I never really changed it much from the old game boy version. It'll get an overhaul soon though since I think I should stop taking the piss and actually make some levels mortals can beat. It'll go more in the former direction as I think with easier levels at the start and platformers generally not being a complicated genre that should be enough.
guiding arrow in the tutorial should be pointing the exit, not the extra stuff (it's common vg sense)
Collecting the egg is mandatory, that's why it points there. Not quite sure yet if I'm gonna keep it that way.
old stuff, it feels bad to rotate the cam everytime you move left/right. In heavy situation can give motion sickness.
Yeah, the camera needs work. Another thing that hasn't gotten any love since I moved away from the Game Boy look.
After you die, deactivate the player controller
if you get hit after you die, you can lose a hat
mine 3 exit bugged out on me, I couldn clear the level (I landed on the 1x1 block on the left)
The code of my player controller is an eldritch abomination and I have no clue how to fix these until I bite the bullet and refactor it. Eventually.
it feels bad to be damaged by spikes on the edge of a platform you are standing on (right side of mines 3)
I wanted to add directional collision to them but never got around to.
on death is better to reload the level than to go on level select and wait for a load everytime. it's padding
in pause menu you can put a retry button to skip loadtimes
I'll probably just make you respawn in the level on death and only go back to level select if you complete it. I don't think a retry option is necessary at that point as if you really want to there's plenty of options to just kill yourself quickly. I noticed this with myself when playing Su-Meru. You can press R to reset a puzzle but I'd never use it and instead would just walk into a pit even if that's slightly slower.
the first jump in cliffside 1 (with the spikes above your head) is maybe too much precision
Is that jump even possible normally? the intention was to get horizontal momentum with the hook so you can jump further without jumping high.
Considering you're talking about the cliffside level, how many levels did you beat? Most people got filtered by level 3 it seems.
I still absolutely love this.
The new title is a bit long imo.
Graphics and music are still wonderful. Charming and go together perfectly. I like all the small additions like the trails you leave in the ice, the spinning animation and the little save indicator in the corner.
The game needs some sound effects.
Level reset on death seems a little abrupt. I get that it needs to be quick as you'll be dying a lot (a lesson I should learn myself) but at least having the player enter through the doorway again instead of just appearing in front of it could make it look a bit nicer.
The font in the books is hard to read. Considering the generous line spacing I think a 5x7 font could fit just fine and be much nicer to read.
The walk animation could need some syncing to movement speed, seems a little slow.
Movement on non-ice tiles feels a little jerky, as if the character pauses for a frame on every tile.
Don't have much to say about the gameplay itself as it mostly just werks. Puzzles are well designed, difficulty ramps up at a good pace. It's great.
I really liked that puzzle with the river where you have to complete two separate puzzles to complete the bridge with the push blocks.
On the second puzzle in The Great Hall the camera should scroll ahead so you can see the entire puzzle before you step on the ice. In general with the larger puzzles I noticed that I couldn't always see what I wanted to see but this one was most apparent.
Native Loonix version pls.
Still very fun.
I like the more obvious Shotgun placement.
The tiny little jump feels weird.
The mouse movement feels slightly smoothed or delayed somehow.
Shotgun ammo is very limited until you get upstairs which combined with the difficulty lead to me just sniping with the pistol a bunch.
Walking up and down stairs feels bad, smooth up/down movement would be better.
Some huge difficulty spikes where the game just throws a ton of enemies at you.
Level design is pretty good but still a bit large and open I feel.
This game is really charming somehow, I quite like the characters.
The art of course, isn't great.
There's a bit in the how to at base that's unreadable due to a white background.
I like the way you show who's turn it is by moving characters back and forth, could turn that into more of a mechanic, more damage if enemy is closer, or if their back is turned or something like that.
Battles in the beginning feel too long and there's too many of them before you get to make proper tactical decisions, you know, in the "just press attack and use whatever skill is available" phase.
I'm actually really not into JRPG style games but I'm a little amazed at how palpable the genre becomes for someone like me when just controlled by mouseclicks instead of with a controller.
Mosca is cute.
Played through the demo.
Still feels satisfying as fuck to play, no complaints here.
Asset resolution is still all over the place. Like I said last time, many people won't care but it's something to consider.
I really like the grates you can use with the remote bombs., although the way they're implemented just made the use too obvious.
The movement of the enemies in the last level is way too erratic. They're hard to hit, they're hard to dodge and I could not figure out how exactly they work so they were just frustrating.
Some enemies will fire a projectile upon spawning, feels unfair.
That area in the last level where you first enter a building and then its second half is ruined is confusing because the metaorites behind the windows can't hit you but then there's suddenly the ones flying inside. Maybe add some transparent overlay to the intact windows to better differentiate them.
The little platforms in the last level are hard to see, need more contrast against the background.
Made a video for ya, you deserve if after the tons of videos you've made for other devs.
https://mega.nz/file/YfFREZLA#a1sCDq2tX_HQbr5hzLIhMbWohAKKFOzVxMJwg5dKkzg
I really like the streamlining you did with the hub.
