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The red feather is a special skill that triggers after you get hit 3 times, it pushes you either to the left or to the right but ALWAYS with the same speed.
This is what the pets do:
Light: Rotate around the player and destroy bullets.
Ice: Increase harpies attack cooldown.
Earth: While standing still, destroy ALL bullets close to you.
Wind: Increase jump.
Dark: Cancel harpy counter attack.
Harpies have 4 skills in hard mode: Attack, Counter (When you hit them), Special Skill 1 (After they hit you multiple times) and Special Skill 2 (Time based).
If you trigger the Light Harpy counter skill multiple times, there will be too much bullets around to dodge.
Just for clarification, I beated all the harpies multiple times without pets, but I mastered the game while developing it.
The first harpy is the hardest because she was created before all the others and she was supposed to feel like a final boss.
The ice harpy is weak because her platfoms were supposed to be frozen and slippery, but people would try to kill me.
Yeah, the sex scene is more work after a lot of work, but that is what it takes to tame the harpies. (And it was supposed to get even harder with weird patterns and scaling sizes).
Congratulations for beating the game!
Here's your reward: Actually the main character was supposed to be a dwarf at the start of development, and be able to pick equipment while fighting, but it was scrapped.