This game broke me. Especially that last level with the water had me stutter like porky pig. The movement a lot of time felt unresponsive because he wouldn’t turn, even after deliberately slowing to a level where he would or the dash up/down input just wouldnt go through and made me crash into the ceiling and watch in pain as the lil guy slowly descended to his doom over the span of 2 seconds.
I personally don’t mind the difficulty if it felt more responsive and like it was my mistake that led me to die. You could for example remove or slow down the automatic acceleration, so you dont need to constantly hold back and hope as much!
Beating it with ~130 deaths had me feel like I was beating spelunky 2 again.
the art and presentation was neat too and I really like the idea overall! A few tweaks on the difficulty and you have yourself a solid game!