Better Difficulty Options

[Horatio Svetlana]

I like, maybe love, the game. But dying after collecting 3 crystals a few hours in I felt I'd seen the whole game and didn't want to keep challenging myself and just watched the ending on youtube. Because although I found out in the options I could lower the difficulty, that was only after I'd done my best run, died, and was burnt out on repeating the levels and bosses.

So first. I think the game should tell you when you start the campaign that there are lower difficulty options, but the permadeath difficulty is the intended difficulty. You could also put that difficulty option in the pause menu instead of burying it in options.

Secondly. Crystal level difficulty slider. Level 1, you lose 1 crystal when you die 3 times. Level 2, 2 crystals. Etc. This would allow people to have more middle difficulties instead of infinite lives or 3 lives then permadeath.

I really like this game, but the perceived permadeath only difficulty might put people off.