I feel like crystals were just not necessary. Fun idea, but it didn't really change the game all that much. The purple stone on the other hand felt way cooler because I kept seeing it everywhere and when I was finally able to use it, I zoomed all the way in and implemented it from there.
Also, in the second to last area, the resources needed to make Space Ants don't increase per ant, making it trivially easy to populate space with ants. It might be a feature, but for me, working to make the previous areas super efficient, populating workers in the next area up ASAP, it felt not as good as the previous areas.
Oh, lol. I answered differently because couldn't comprehend how you could have problems with the actual first level, but zooming in all the way is going to do it! I actually prepared a picture for that too, but I just assumed you were talking about the next level up.
I love the idea behind the movement. Wall runs/jumps, gun jumping yourself into the air, grappling. It's all very cool. One thing that would make it feel less slippery and more in control is greater air control. There's already some. When grenade jumping, you can slow your movement forward by turning the camera sideways and pressing A or D in the opposite direction of the jump. But you can't slow down by pressing S, the "back-yourself-up" key. I think air control would go a long way into making the game feel more in control. Currently I feel like a drunk man when I'm jumping, or even just running. You can kind of air-strafe, but the control isn't there.
Also, I feel enemy ragdolls should lose collision when dead. In the first sky level, I ran into an enemy to keep him from shooting me, and I lost all momentum and got stuck on the ragdoll such that I had to go backwards to get around him. It wasn't a good experience.
It would be nice if I could hold spacebar when jumping and not instantly bounce off a wall after jumping into it. Maybe have it wait till I press jump again for me to jump again instead of having me bounce again after holding space down once. It would make the controls tighter.
I don't like getting launched off the level from a grenade launcher wielding enemy. I'd rather just die and restart since getting launched off the level will end in the same result, but more S L O W L Y .
Some people have expressed hatred towards the milk table, citing that it slows down runs. It does, but if you just improved the air control, people could more consistently jump and steer into the milk instead of hitting the table and carefully lining up a jump to get that milk.
