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inopagames17 days ago(+1)

Aaw dang. Well the orignal idea was that you always keep running from the Nightmare, never backtracking and making laps around the platforms. There should be only one intentional dead end and thats the cave in the down left where you’re supposed to end the run. Flashlight slowing her was a suggestion so it’s kinda slappped in there in a patch but I kept the original gameplay intact pretty much. I think I playtested this too little or too much. Now that I tried it after a pause, it’s really tough to make more distance by running if the nightmare sees you even once. It seems I have a tendency to pad the playtime with difficulty withouth making a lot of content.

I’ll add the optimal run route to the hints section, the idea was that you play a bit to understand the layout and then end up with that route eventually. Thanks for giving it another shot, sorry it’s still so tedious.

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Rexizor16 days ago

Ah, I was seeing one part as a "dead end" since there's two ways to get in, but only one of them lets you get out. it's the spot above the long leftwards cave tunnel with the dropdown onto a small hill. if you come at it from below, what I was trying to do, you can't go out from the top. I guess I'm a bit stubborn, and I was kinda assuming the Nightmare's behavior was a simple "go directly towards you", since that's how it acts whenever it's visible to you, but it just following your path makes more sense to what I observed.  Given that, it's not actually a dead end. A hint somewhere in the game like "The nightmare follows where you once were, avoid nearing it at all costs. If one route doesn't work, try another." although perhaps phrased more gracefully, would help with that aspect.

I WILL beat this game someday, when I'm less incredibly busy.

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inopagames16 days ago

Aaw crap you’re absolutely right about the dead end! Yeah definitely didn’t playtest enough ahah. No wait it is right? If you come from the right the only way out is the same way, don’t think I did that run once. Yeah I absolutely see it seems she always comes straight at you since you don’t see her moving, wanted her to feel like a bloodhound. A tip would help, I’ll add one if I some day update, meanwhile I’ll add that to the hints.

Hehee I’m glad it didn’t completely turn off ahah. Hope the secret ending doesn’t disappoint, just an illustration, but one guy they really liked it at least.

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