Snail Sherpa Farming

[Furoggu]

This is somewhat of a rambling rant, but I'm surprised I haven't seen many complaints about this. The kiss spam mechanic on the snail sherpa is really annoying and kills the flow of the game. I just want to play loops instead of sitting there spamming kisses until the timer runs out on every stage. Instead, the insane level of karma you get makes it feel stupid not to do it in large lobbies, plus everyone else seemingly wants to do it, so if I enter the portal to end the stage it feels like I'm being a ♥♥♥♥. Its stupid for a mechanic like this to far FAR exceed the amount of karma you get for playing the game perfectly, trivialising all the mechanics designed to encourage cooperation as the gains feel pointless in comparison.

Imo this mechanic should be greatly changed/nerfed or outright removed so that it stops ruining lobbies for those that don't want to participate (or feel forced to). If people are going to complain then you could always do something else for those that would hate to lose out on the huge karma gains, like boosting karma gain globally or adding an alternative way to gain lots of karma that isn't so obnoxious and boring. Otherwise what is the alternative? Quitting every lobby with snail sherpa in an already low player-count game, where the chances are you'll be put right back into the same lobby or be unable to find one? Or going straight into the portal to end every stage immediately, turning the cozy co-op game with strangers designed around friendly cooperation into something where you feel everyone might be annoyed at you? Either way sucks.

Is it nice to have an option to get more unlocks before the game starts to die? Sure. But does it really need come at the cost of breaking the game design and encouraging people to actively *not* play the game? If it were contained to private lobbies it wouldn't matter—it's a co-op game—but as it stands I've found it in over half the public lobbies I've joined and felt pressured to participate or at the very least forced to tab out whilst everyone else does it for 10+ minutes per loop. I think the game is really neat but this has killed my motivation hard.

[Done25]

The snail kiss spam feels like they genuinely couldn't think of anything interesting to add to him.