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Lovely game. I really like that the main mechanic is quite simple, but very elegant and exciting to use! Everything was mostly tutorialized well, but I think that (at least the first world) gets quite hard very quickly. And modestly I'm decent at 2d platformers (finished celeste's c-sides and hollow knight's path of pain), but some screens felt a bit too long for being so early in the game.

Some stuff felt kinda mean, like the pillar of spikes where you have to superjump to get out - I get that you're making a precision platformer but it felt a bit too precise, for being so early at least (still they were some cool jumps).

But still the music, sfx and the character design for the little eye (?) guy are nice. Best of luck for future game devving!

Supersingular Games122 days ago(+1)

Thanks for the feedback and I agree that the difficulty curve is too steep, I struggled with making the levels good for a newcomer after practicing the game for a month!The other issue was that forcing super jumps instead of wall jumps meant I needed to put spikes on a lot of walls, which made the game harder than maybe it should have been. The combo movement really ties you into specific level designs which is fun for hard levels but not so good for the beginning.

Really appreciate you taking the time to comment though, thank you! Great to have a player who is used to the games I love playing my little game :)

Iron Peck122 days ago

I think a decent fix to begin could be to just have the screens/levels be shorter in the first world. Like if there's a room where you have to do 2 kinda hard jumps, I'd just cut it up in two rooms. I didn't mind that the jumps were hard, I'd have already had a better experience just by not having to repeat a segment before an hard jump.

For the pit/spikes where you have to superjump out from I think you could probably widen it a little bit, just to leave the player more wiggle room to maneuver around and making the pit slightly shorter to accomodate for the change in length.

Supersingular Games122 days ago(+1)

Yeah, I think I just didn't get the difficulty curve right. I played https://kultisti.itch.io/frogfall today and this was so much fun, and had a great difficulty curve. I think I was worried about early rooms being boring without considering how for people playing for the first time just running and moving needs several rooms to get used to.

I'm planning on making new games so I'll definitely try and keep things more gradual next time!