yeah its pretty difficult. i originally was going to make him move back and forth on one end of the arena but that didnt really feel good to play because he would dodge the fireballs you parry back at him. i think having him copy your movements is a good idea and i think i will do that in the next update.
i forgot to add a tutorial so here are some things you should know before playing.
the premise of the game is that you are a robot that can copy the powers of the other robots you defeat.
you can parry with the basic melee attack this applies to both the fireballs fired by the firebot and the water beam fired by the waterbot. but the water beam is really hard to parry because it is just a bunch of particles.
also sometimes the final boss doesnt work it will just sit there. i was unaware of this until after the submissions ended and i do plan on addressing this and a few other bugs when the jam is over
yeah there seems to be like a 1 in 10 chance that the waterbot doesnt work so as soon as the voting on the game jam ends im gonna fix that. and yeah they both have a chance to deflect fireballs back toward you and i plan on making that more obvious that that is what they are doing.
thanks for the feedback, i kinda made the player in a rush and forgot to set the interpolation. and i do plan on making the attacks feel more responsive.
yeah i accidentally didnt disable it before the boss fight. you are supposed to just use the basic melee attack during the first fight. You can also parry the fireballs back at him if you can get the timing right.
