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[Momentum]

there's no music or sound. the author comments talk about music tracks. that seems dishonest.

[Blast Magus]

i just don't get how you go from a masterpiece like everloom... to this.

re: how? it was fantastic. beautiful pixel art, good animation/atmosphere/music and didn't overstay its welcome.

Kajenx responds:

Lol, a lot of people hated The Everloom. XD

[Mine Sweeper]

better love story than twilight

[Heliox Station]

'x' throwing the object you're holding by default is very very VERY annoying.

oh and some of the puzzles require you to be so fast (hitting a button and jumping over to a box that is disintegrating from the button and leaping off it up onto a ledge and leaping out off the ledge to catch the replacement box mid-fall and doubling back mid-air to get that box up on the ledge for laser redirection.. and all of this in like a half second. that's unreasonable. just because i can pull it off doesn't mean any other player can.

also in this very puzzle, there was a bug where once i'd pulled that off there was an emancipation grill up top, making it impossible to get over there with the fan cube. when i reset the level, it just didn't do that again so i was able to beat it. very frustrating level. and the x throwing instead of dropping by default was game-breakingly bad.

it still gets a 5 from me because this type of game is my favorite cup of tea

re author: well when i looked up a walkthrough to hopefully find a more natural way of doing it, i literally found someone doing it the exact way i did it.

you obviously need to refactor the design on that level. if you didn't intend anyone to be fast then you did something hilariously wrong.

also re author: don't call it a fizzler. call it an emancipation grill (like i did) because that is absolutely what it is. pay respect to your inspirations. don't try to pretend they didn't inspire you, as in the case of portal 2 directly for that particular mechanic.

kaiakairos responds:

idk what shit you were doing but you did it WRONG. The only reason you can hop off the disintegrating blocks at all is because its a lil speedrun bug i left in intentionally (for silly). Not a single one of the levels (except maybe one in the glue area) require you to be fast
ALSO the fizzler on top is not a bug that is intentional level design

[Deepspace]

has potential. a bit annoying traversing regions with no shops though

[Paper Planet DEMO]

upgrade options popped up. so i clicked the one i wanted. nothing happened. clicked it a few more times. and then the options just went away.

afterwards, i was left wondering if it was designed so that we had to press a key to select an upgrade and if that wasn't immediately obvious to us, you punish the player by taking away any upgrade at all.

edit: i see. i wasn't aware I needed to shoot to select them. thanks for clarifying

Willops responds:

I think you might've been sitting on the continue button by accident? If you rotate the turret to face the upgrade you want you can shoot it to get it.

Edit: I went ahead and changed the way continuing from the shop and item waves works. Instead of sitting on a button you now shoot a box, hopefully this should make it easier to avoid accidentally skipping items.

[Jetpack Kiwi]

pretty tremulous. shop was misleading though. i suicided after a long stretch of no deaths just to see if i could get some upgrades there.

you shouldn't have had a shop like that. that was a mean way to trick the player into tossing a good run.

[No Time 2 Slime!]

Why did you make us hit 'enter' to refocus on the game window if we accidentally clicked outside of it?

[Prepare to be a Maze]

clever twist.

[Diro da Blob]

having to hit enter each death is annoying.