Very interesting game to make with RPG maker! The plugin you created for physics seems great. I was looking for something similar for ages. The game itself is quite interesting too. The themes are very relatable, especially to game devs i think, and the graphics are simple but quite effective. I also really enjoyed the responsiveness of the sword and arrows in game, the controls were tight in that respect. But the platforming was a little more difficult to control. The game became excessively hard for me soon as I left the house entered that gian room with buzz saws and hidden pitfalls. All in all great job and definitely went beyond my expectations for this jam :)
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Thanks for trying the game.
I just wanted to clarify that the excessiveness of the traps in the second map was an intentional design choice. I was trying to create something similar to the effect of Unfair Mario, but it seems that either people weren't familiar with the reference, or simply weren't expecting rage-inducing troll traps given the serious tone of the story. As a result, the design came across as annoyingly imbalance (based on the three comments so far), which was not my original intent.
Maybe I should have added more traps to make it obvious that they were there to troll the player..?
Yea I think it would help to either go over the top by adding more to make your trolling intensions obvious, or continue the more gradual increase of difficulty that has already been happening from the start of the game by giving us a couple more screens that are harder but not so difficult all of a sudden in between. I would personally encourage the second option because, as you said, it doesn't fit the serious tone of the game that you have built so far, and that works very well. (I don't know Unfair Mario, but will check that out. sounds interesting)