>Also I didn't "stretch" anything. The "Wong mode" is already toned down in many ways (including enemy damage) from what the game was just a week before this DD.
but you say in the end of your reply that you agree that enemies killin you in three hits is bad. So i don't get what "tone down" means in this context. Overall for what i played this dosent seem a rage game, but an actual attempt at making a 2d beu: if this is the case having drain health and enemies that kill you with 3 hp is very drastic. you can tune this in multiple ways, from enemies dropping more health, adding some healing items drop etc. that's not the problem; my problem is if "that" is the first level, i don't wanna see what path of pain you will be making for the last level. And i am a beu/soul/stylish/nioh/big dick is back in town player. Moreover, for how punishing your game is, adding also a gameover + hard reset to the level like an arcade is really spiteful. that's also why i've written you streatched your content. also in testing phase imo give a bigger number of lives; if you were testing level balance and first time play with this build, imo your difficulty setting pov for what a player should expirience is completely out of wack.
>footsies
i can argue that "footsie" fights against your game design: if you want footise your gameplay is probably too fast. But this game needs to be fast because your health drains; and since wait and dodge it's a losing strategy, it's better to dash beyond any enemy that is not gated. And when you need health, you win by outmanuvering enemies by dashing on their backs and chain-stun them. in your current build "footsie" is not a good philosopy to follow. I'm basically playing megamen zero [melee edition]. if you say footises are well implemented and useful, i need to see how you play your game; because then the problem might not be footise on itself, but how you teached me how to survive in the tutoral.
>yamazaki
search yamazaki king of fighters; he has a counter move(tongue out); that pose it's very similar to one of your pg
GLfor your next build