I gave up at 1300. I think we should release the key to jump. Jumping bar could go up and down for this. The reason is it was very hard to both jump, change directions and catch something.
1300 is pretty good honestly, the fact that you autojump when the bar is full is indeed purely for difficulty reasons, since most jumps don't really require a lot of direction changes.
I hope you at least enjoyed it a bit through the frustration. There is a little bit of a hack you can do to keep hanging on though, and that is by tapping the jump button, you can release and grab the same anchor point without ever leaving it :)
Thanks for the comment and feedback
180 days ago(+1)
Extra steps is not always a bad thing given it's an arcade game, also the level of commitment is different in the two scenarios and the point of the game is to be a precision based experience.