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I'm going to be honest - what I read in the blurb here was NOT at all the game I played. Not only was the game not really about a creator with complete control of your life -

- but the platforming itself is not "just difficult enough." The creator incorporates concepts from other platforming games without actually understanding how to use them.

There's a controllable jump height like a lot of platformers, where holding the key longer lets you jump higher and further... but there is never, ever a point where you need anything other than the furthest jump. In a game relying on specifically-timed double jumps, having to hold down the key till the last second when there is no reason to is just an added level of frustration in control. It's like the creator just included it to have it.

And the orbs that allow you to double jump are massive, giving you a lot of freedom on when to jump in them, right? WRONG. In most of the levels after their introduction, there will be a section where proceeding means hitting the very top of several orbs, and doing it any later means certain death. With the aforementioned difficulty in jumping, hitting that "sweet spot" is basically impossible sometimes - not because the player doesn't know how, but because the game itself is clunky and hard to get right. On top of that, sometimes the game doesn't even register a clear keystroke, right in the spot where the player needs to jump.

Level 18 is, I think, a perfect example of what's wrong with this game. There's rotating spike platforms, and the player can, relatively simply, slip past the first with a slightly lower jump to hit the first orb. Except, because the author only planned for the player to always use the highest jump, the next orb is completely impossible to hit that way. Then, later on, when the player reaches two orbs right on top of each other, unless the double jump is activated RIGHT at the tip of each orb, there is no way to get past the obstacles to the next area. That kind of timing is ridiculous with the poor controls in this game.

Ultimately, this was just plain bad. It has the marks of a "first try," incorporating ideas from other games - and if that's the case, great! Hopefully future games wouldn't have this one's issues, and if the author genuinely wants to examine a more complex version of this story, that'd be great too. But the story was boring and the gameplay was frustrating, not because the path through is impossible to understand, but because the design is for a very exact path through, and the controls were not solid enough for that kind of precision.

Rather annoying that you keep dying in EVERY Level. According to the ending comments, this was an early attempt to make a game by the 'creator'. meh. 5/10. I was able to beat every level with 3 stars, after many deaths.

PS, final score is 142810. Who Can Beat Me???

Level 1-3: That wasn't so hard! Let's inch up the difficulty!
Level 4 onward: I hope you have the precision skills of Star Platinum or you are so doomed.

While the level design faults have been noted (namely, the clunkiness of the controls+precision combination), I have to say that the narrative seemed a little...meh.

It seemed really "tell" rather than "show."

Overall, the game's design has an interesting premise that could easily be expanded. As it stands, it was sort of, kind of fun. It isn't much more than that, though.

First off, the game did keep me interested for a bit, but I would agree that after a bit it was just ordinary platforming. I didn't mind the tiny hitboxes too much as I got used to them, but I can see how they'd be annoying, especially when you have to jump at the moment before you hit a spike ball on top of a circle. On a few occasions (especially level 24), I did use a jump less than the maximum height, but otherwise it most mostly straightforward. A nice game, but just slightly incomplete.

(My score was 142633, by the way.)

Good game, very interesting around 9 where you edit code. 10/10