Game unneccessarily hard or am I just bad?

[Cate]

First off loving the game, but running into quite a few issues.

Was it intentional to spawn with 2 hearts after death? It feels unnecessarily punishing. Especially when I'm trying to do some of the boss fights, there's no way for me to get hearts back from enemies/random items being destroyed. Each time I die I still only get 2 hearts, and the boss fights usually have so many projectiles I just keep dying over and over.

Spoilers here: I'm currently stuck at the boss wormhole ship fight and there's no way to get health back, too many projectiles from the ship compared to my two hearts, I keep dying or falling in the hole!! and then the map is so zoomed in I can't even find the whales!!!!!

ALSO The boss fight in the void felt quite intensive on eyestrain, as the spiral pattern makes it hard to work out the movement needed for the attacks, and the screen effects are flashing badly as the fight progresses

I'm really enjoying the game but it's becoming a bit frustrating. Also any chance for a colourblind mode, it's kind of hard to see sometimes with the muted colours and so many projectiles.

[dashi]

skill issue imo

(I'm kidding I do think there are definitely some genuine things to improve upon here)

[pwetty pwincess]

these are good points because the art style is gorgeous, BUT in that fight the style is working against us by making the depth perception even harder to judge. It's like ramping the difficulty WAY up.

[Breezy]

The Vortex area is oddly punishing in general. I've spent hours trying to beat the sandwhale ring challenge and the time limit between the last two rings feels almost impossible, especially with the rings detecting the antenna/Hauntii and not the actual sandwhale (as I'd expect). The visual effects as you get near the vortex hurt my eyes a bit as well. :( Stunning game, otherwise.

[bydand_]

I understand our hearts were broken when our angel girlfriend was taken away from us, but beating the lil ghost when it's down (to only two hearts) feels a lil harsh on the poor thing.

[ristch]

It feels like the displayed position of the character is offset from where the game thinks it is the closer you get to the middle of the vortex. Like it's working off x/y coords and ignoring z?

The trail/footsteps are displayed above the character, the race rings are triggered off of centre. With all the other visual effects happening, It makes it harder to make out what's going on and where you even are.

Spawning with only 2 hearts and then having to backtrack to find health before you can have another attempt at an encounter felt oddly punishing.

[Mr_Gorbins]

Yes the boss wormhole ship feels really annoing espesially becasuse it's not clear where to hit the ship. One would think a collision between a big whale and a ship is pretty inevitable but somehow not in this game...

[DistortedCobalt]

Originally posted by breezy:

The Vortex area is oddly punishing in general. I've spent hours trying to beat the sandwhale ring challenge and the time limit between the last two rings feels almost impossible, especially with the rings detecting the antenna/Hauntii and not the actual sandwhale (as I'd expect). The visual effects as you get near the vortex hurt my eyes a bit as well. :( Stunning game, otherwise.

the 6th ring feels impossible to me, i run out of time before i even get to attempt to reach the frustratingly confusing hitbox

[johnny_sinister]

Originally posted by DistortedCobalt:

Originally posted by breezy:

The Vortex area is oddly punishing in general. I've spent hours trying to beat the sandwhale ring challenge and the time limit between the last two rings feels almost impossible, especially with the rings detecting the antenna/Hauntii and not the actual sandwhale (as I'd expect). The visual effects as you get near the vortex hurt my eyes a bit as well. :( Stunning game, otherwise.

the 6th ring feels impossible to me, i run out of time before i even get to attempt to reach the frustratingly confusing hitbox

Even though 2 of the previous rings are at ground level, you still need to maintain jumping while passing through them. Jumping speeds you up. If you just pass through ring 5 beneath the surface, you will never have enough speed to reach the 6th ring. Also, you will need a decent size jump (while acknowledging the ridiculous hitbox) on ring 6 to reach ring 7 in time.

[punpun]

The depth perception issue really holds this game back. Trying to figure out if you're too close, far, high, or low can be so tedious sometimes. I wish there were some additional visual cues to help guide you.

[Ri Ra]

This is the least skill-demanding twin-stick game I've ever played. Very relaxed and forgiving.

[Lightreturn]

Hey everyone! Just jumping in here with a bit more info from our end:

We have changed the amount of hearts the player spawns with (full health) and fixed the collision bugs with the sandwhale race in the Vortex as well as the two stars that were not obtainable at the Eternia Ballroom merchant

We will be continuing to patch and update more issues soon! Thanks to everyone who has played so far, and been so patient with us <3

[mitose]

I completely agree with Cate.

Until then the game was really, very, very good but this fight seems broken (camera and readability in particular). In addition it requires hitting the boss too many times in my opinion.

After three full hours of unsuccessful attempts I gave up and, unless there is a patch to change the situation, personally I will leave it there with an unpleasant impression.

23/06/2024 : I finally succeeded !
As I imagined the patches didn't help that much. But it made me try again. However this sequence was really painful.

[Marta Kaiser]

Game is just broken at vortex point.
I have same issue with sandwhale and ember's ship - just can't beat it - always falling into hole and etc (sandworm have very poor controls).
And how many times you shell hit the boss to deal with him? I seen the walkthrough and count 15+ times! Really? It just not fun joke!
Absence of minimap at same areas are frustrating too - you can simply lost without any clues where to go...

[Definer]

Vortex fight has inaccurate controls, even worse camera angles. Also your diving shadow gets obstructed by the vortex effects. This fight wasn't thought out too well, compared to the rest of the game. It has nice spectacle, but it's just a bit jank.

[chlojo420]

I've been trying to beat the sandworm boss for hours. I have gotten soooo close but I just can't seem to finish it without either falling in the hole or running into something else. I either wish the hitbox for the ship was bigger, or we had to hit him less times.