Please let me know if this changes anything.
Yeah that makes sense. that's why i restarted the game and beat it quicker.
I liked the game imo but it is still undercooked atm. good video games usually dont have extremely fast pacing and usually respect the player's reaction. I'm personally just good at it, have all the metroid skills in my subconscious. The final boss was a joke though. I thought he was hard at first until I figured it out I have the dash that damages him. He was super easy after that. I had to just dash through him. I have a bit of feedback on the XGA boss for the final version.
try make the arena bigger so it doesn't look like you are fighting him in a small confinement. Maybe introduce new attacks along the way so it feels like you are fighting an actual boss, not just a patrolling alien creature. it will feel underwhelming and anticlimactic.
btw do I have to pay for the Special Edition if I already have the game?
I'd love to know what other areas you felt the game was undercooked. Do you mean the bugs in general?
I'll make the arena bigger. Though the point of the easy fight was to turn the tables on XGA and now make the player the unstoppable monster instead.
The special edition would have a much better endgame section and ending. It would be roughly $5.
Yeah I meant the bugs in general. are you a first time developer by any chance? cuz that probably explains why.
Yeah I see what you mean but I don't think many people will like that idea in an action game (maybe it's just me I don't want to ruin your game). Maybe you can make the true final boss feel more climactic than the XGA fight because it's a follow up to defeating the Bio-corp for once and for all.
But I mean do I have to pay for the game again if I already have the game in my library?
Yeah XGA is my first game though I've been working on it for many years now. I don't do game development as a job, it's just a hobby of mine. But it would be cool if in the future I could have a job as a game developer.
Yeah the true final boss will be a lot better.
I don't know how it'd work. I'd try and find a way to let owners of XGA get the special edition for free. Maybe I could have it be $5 on steam but on itchio it could be pay what you want so you'd get it for free? I don't know how it'd work with steam if it can even recognise itchio games and change prices based on that. I'd have to look into it. I'm also concerned that if everyone knew that they could get it for free on itchio nobody would pay for it on steam, and I wouldn't make back the steam direct fee which would suck. I'd like to be able to sell my game and I think offering extra content is the way to do this.