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[Tower of Towers]

It's been over ten minutes on the second section of the ice level alone, and my patience has run out. Although I can now consistently get past the snowballs, the obligatory freeze baffles me as I am not able to jump after falling from the second to the third ice platform, and the ceiling is too low to jump directly from the second. I would try to figure it out, but the fafct that the only freeze section is overly hard and after a challenging jump section makes it taxing to figure out through trial error. You can't just introduce two new mechanics in a single segment, it prevents the player from actually learning how the mechanics work.

Spebby responds:

Thanks for the feedback, will consider tweaking.

[ONE BTN BOSSES]

What is that windmill attack? Every attack needs to give the player the ability to respond to it. You do a good job with most attacks in that regard, but the windmill attack is terrible. It goes from still to kill instantly, and it doesn't even tell you which way it rotates!

[Worlds Below]

Dear god what is that wall detection? And grappling angles?

[Wife Quest]

My main observations:

The overall level design is just... very mediocre. With basically random enemy placements and no interesting puzzles or platforming elements other than basic walking and tight jumping, it's just generally not engaging.

The killing animations are a completely pointless waste of time and you would be better off removing them.

Your English is... not perfect. Try to get a native speaker to check it over.

[Again]

People who have never played your game before have no idea how your game works. That seems like an obvious fact but you apparently don't get it. You need to, like, actually teach people things. You need to tell them how the mechanics work, and you need to let them do that by themselves to really understand it. As it is, the first level is a compete abomination of game design. You have several platforms in between the start and where the actual stuff happens. You have vague instructions that don't actually tell you how the mechanics work. The big jump itself is way too difficult for literally the first thing the player has to do. If you fail, you have to stare at the logo for 5 seconds and then jump across the platform for another 5 seconds. Oh, and if you were holdinng right while trying to make the jump, you'll probably immediately die again by walking off the platform before you can react. Please, just have some shorter levels, easy ones where what you have to do is right there, before getting into the meat of it. Also, the background makes it sometimes impossible to see, the wall collision is incredibly bizarre and inconsistent, and the end stage only mentions the itch page so apparently this is illegally reuploaded here.

InnerDemonsENT responds:

Yeah yeah. We got some feedback and are planning a full recode of the game. Also I forgot to remove the "beta endgame room" which is what you're referring to. I'll update again today fix some things and after the full recode we'll save your feedback (among other people's) and make the game more playable. Sorry for all the trouble and hey - thanks for checking it out!

- J. Paradox

[Dorfde Goes To Buy Pepsi(Chapter 1) Version 1.1.4.]

I died to the Sandman in the prologue and lost all my progress and I can't skip the intro without missing out on vital lore. Bleh.

beenibroh responds:

At least you like the music I did :)

[Fragile]

Wow, this may be the most genuine twist I've ever seen in a game. Meaningful, too.

[Third Party]

It's a cool concept and the spritework is nice. But the game crashed during the big level. I had just picked up a blue chaingunner guy and shot a red pistol thing. I can tolerate the crashing as long as I don't lose everything, but there's no level select, so I couldn't get back to where I was, which really sours me.

[Afraid of the Dark]

This isn't how you do random generation, this isn't how you do darkness, and this isn't how you do bosses in a platformer game. The game is just a series of uninteresting rooms one after another, repeatedly making blind jumps and running into unavoidable projectiles and unseen enemies. Boss attacks are telegraphed far too late - did it start its beam attack while your were jumping? Too late, you're dead.

[Rotate]

Keyboard controls jam all the time, badges don't unlock, and the physics are really screwy. The final level doesn't even play he way it's supposed to, as you can just go back when you're halfway through the one-way blocks.