I tried to roll but it seemed like I was getting hit anyway. Perhaps I wasn’t though. How big is the windows of iframes?
Alright I've rated all the games so I've come back to this one and I'm pausing to rage comment so sorry about that haha. I may be missing something but right now my feedback is I think you should have spent a little more time working on the platforming than the map because there's a ton to explore but the platforming is super unforgiving and/or there aren't alternative routes (that I can find) to get high up. I have spent 30 minutes just trying to jump on this one elevator from another elevator (that are right next to each other) because the double jump is suppppper finicky and just doesn't work sometimes. Any tips?
EDIT: I made it and it was the elevator to get to the chest that was not by any crystals. Also that reminds me about the crystals. I not understand the rolling, but because the laser follows you no matter what it is a little confusing. I think having it shoot at a place where you are standing would be better, and if you roll out of the way you can see it hit behind you or whatever.
Worse than that, because that's not a huge deal is that you cannot dodge while flying, and you can't tell their range, so you just get wrecked when you're trying to explore and glide around (also when you're just running around and think you're out of range). I think that a solution to all of my laser problems would be a charge up sound instead of it instantly hitting you so you knew if you were entering its range.
It totally needs more platforming. and design as a whole. It was planned but I missed nearly 5 days during the jam so was not able to squeeze everything in. You can make it to the 3rd level by taking the back windzone, right under where you spawn in, at the bottom in the spore valley. It will launch you so far up that you can glide to the 3rd level. You might even be able to take the rear smoke plume to the 3rd, or at least to a platform leading to the 3rd. Use your glider to drop in on your position after a double jump or wall run. Funny enough the lasers use to stop where they hit you and I changed it so they would track you. Issue is I didnt cut the beam duration down so the beam actually stays on the player longer after the damage happens. When rolling use the audio of the beam to set your timing. If you don't want to take the platforms to the corner chest, you can actually triple jump from the 3rd level where the upper crystal is and glide there. So there are multiple ways to get up there and find things.
I posted a strategy video on my Itch page where I do the crystals in 1 go, dodging almost every laser beam on ground. It's a challenging game, but I think once you get the timing down it gets way easier. Really like the feedback!
ha Oh man! So i'll just throw it out here. If you don't step into the light and you leave the palace, the flight pickup is right outside by he checkpoint. I guess I didn't want players obtaining it during the main gameplay because then they could just bypass everything, get the chests quickly and get a low completion time. What I SHOULD have done was let the sphere grant them the power of flight after the win. Im glad you were able to beat it! Even if it was difficult by design or from being flawed. You were close to finding Maxx! He was near the palace.