This game should be tagged as HARD!

[Cierroth]

Few health, Few recovery, slow movement, no speed up, and the WORST OF ALL: NO CHECKPOINTS!
If this not make it HARD I don't know what could!! (thankfully It was free, or I demand a refund!)
*Cuphead was more easy*

[Laserstormelpies]

you do know that your movement is higher when you dont shoot? as soon as i figured that out, playing through the game was easy.

[lnomsim]

Yeah, but when you don't shoot, well, you don't shoot, so more ennemies on screen, less chances of a heart drop, and more chances to get killed.
If you haven't evolved onece by the time you reach the toads, good luck surviving without shooting.

[Laserstormelpies]

i dont think i can send messages here with more than 1000 characters, so heres a youtube link of me beating the game without collecting hearts and without getting hit. its easy once you learn a few things about the game. i wrote down all my knowledge in the video description.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSZ-OTUR9pc

[lnomsim]

13minutes?!

Yeah, I thought it would be a nice 'relaxing 'game, but it's definitely not for me, thanks for the video.

[Laserstormelpies]

a run itself usually only takes 9-10min so yeah, you dont need to survive for longer than that.

[Cierroth]

Originally posted by lnomsim:

13minutes?!

Yeah, I thought it would be a nice 'relaxing 'game, but it's definitely not for me, thanks for the video.

mine thoughts exactly.

[Cierroth]

Originally posted by Laserstormelpies:

you do know that your movement is higher when you dont shoot? as soon as i figured that out, playing through the game was easy.

Yeah I know, BUT if the enemies could be killed with 1-3 shoots it wouldn't be so hard to quick mash the button if I not moving BUT that's not the case here...!

[Laserstormelpies]

you dont need to mash to shoot? you hold down spacebar. (if i understood what you said correctly). i can see that people would love to have an easy mode (that maybe unlocks if you died 10x or so) just to explore the game and its graphics and creatures... but i do need to say that i really liked how the game challenged me in the first 30min but then it made me start learning more and more about its mechanics and that actually continuosly improved my gameplay over time. its kind of like a dark souls example. i kept interacting with it and received knowledge to beat it. and that was a really cool experience. if the game was easier from the beginning i'm not sure if i would have had the same experience with it.
(just as my final words on that matter)

[Nidstang]

Yea, I just played for 30 mins and I can't get passed the second boss. Incredibly frustrating. I don't think it needs an easy mode, but it needs like a second life, or a few more heart collects in each section or something. Sometimes there's literally no way to avoid certain hits the way enemies shoot.

[VanAlphen]

For a shmup I think normal mode is relatively easy. You do need to get used to the game mechanics.

[Haggy McSaggy]

And the 'God Gamer Award of the Year™©®' goes to @VanAlphen

[NemphisMacaroon]

a game in general is not made to make 100% of playerbase being able to finish it.
A game is made for a few things but in this case the story and lore is minimal and cute and the game focuses on being challenging. Why do you want every game to adapt to your needs?

I guess OP is born after 2000's where there is checkpoints every 20 seconds and when games know that u suck at the game and makes it easier.

The total game is like, what was said above, 13 minutes without hearts, 10 minutes with hearts and upgrades. Why do you complain?? i dont understand.

Adapt to the game, learn by your mistakes and improve. If you dont finish the game at any point, its to difficult for you. Which sometimes sux, but thats life.

[Laserstormelpies]

(towards the playtime, none of my runs ever went above the 10min mark) my fastest time was 7m33s and my longest was 9m50s or so. honestly the game experience here gets even better when you keep trying and see yourself improving piece by piece.

[Froggo]

Are you seriously complaining a Free to play game isn't SHORT enough? Lol

The game is intentionally hard. If that's not for you, no worries you haven't invested much into anyway. Bring up actual discussion, like how the 4 heart upgrade is not much of an upgrade at all. Why a horizontal shooter gets two diagonal shoots as an upgrade makes little sense to me. Half of the shot will miss simply by design

[Chocos Ramabotti]

Originally posted by Laserstormelpies:

(towards the playtime, none of my runs ever went above the 10min mark) my fastest time was 7m33s and my longest was 9m50s or so. honestly the game experience here gets even better when you keep trying and see yourself improving piece by piece.

Exactly and an easy mode otherwise would deny this learning curve because people might be tempted using it just for seeing the visual but otherwise miss the actual point of the game where learning is an integral part of.

It's already short enough so you can't even claim that it wastes your time when it takes longer to sort your inventory in Witcher 3 for example.

Knowing that you haven't beat the game yet is what keeps you returning to it and this is a good thing in the long end.