Sleepy Stu's Adventure

Karma's what happens depending on how you finish a level. Getting the normal exit is good, taking the "secret" exit (found, as mentioned in the game, by shooting everywhere until you hit the right block) is bad.

Basically, it's a way of making an additional game out of allowing you to skip any particularly difficult level.

And I think the ending changes depending on your karma. Allowing skipping but with bad karma makes the game more playable, while at the same time incentivizing each level.

(Honestly, this was all clearly explained/evident in the game. I'm surprised the reviewer didn't notice it.)

I'm going to stop at level 29. very frustrating when you know how to do it but have to keep restartng to get your jumps pixel perfect - even more so when you've got all the flowers but mess up heading for the exit - good game up till then.

I didn't find 26 and 28 much different from normal platform thinking.

I am stuck on level 14.

*facepalms*
I forgot about the head-stickiness.

Had anyone tried the Challenge Stage? I beat the first 4 that were unlocked after level 10 but the platforming on the 5th is quite hard.

I cannot see how you are supposed to access the challenge levels. I beat the game with all three endings but cannot seem to find where the challenge levels are.

Level 28 wound up being not so much "rethink my assumptions about platforms" as "remember how the game mechanics work":

*facepalm*

This (and perhaps some other levels) get much easier to figure out if you turn on automatic skill selection.

Honestly, I didn't find this game extremely difficult, and I'm not a champion in platformers.

Still, it manages to be challenging without being frustrating. It makes you feel dumb now and then, but not unfairly so. Your failures are clearly yours. Which makes your successes even more enjoyable.

The level designing is indeed clever, and that's what prevents me from rating this a 4 instead of a 5. I've been tempted to rate this a 4 because I felt that the concept of "limited list of moves allowed" was not fully exploited. Then I thought to myself, it would be unfair. "Limited list of moves" isn't new, it's been used back in Lemmings. And here's why this game deserves a 5: it made me think of Lemmings (and what was great about Lemmings 2: The Tribes) while being totally different.

I'm giving it a 5, despite it being EXTREMELY pixel-perfect on platforming challenges.
As was already said, it is difficult but not mind-blowing. It is an interesting new concept, while retaining the joy of all that is Puzzle-Platforming.

I can't seem to make level 30 work. Also, no way to go back and redo a level that you took the easy way out of? Uncool.

Anyhow, for 30, I seem to think the trick is to ceiling float over the spikes in the middle of the level so that you can get to the next area that sets you up to shoot the switch, but no matter what I do I can't jump high enough.

Arg, it crashed for me on level 46 or something like that! I had just gotten the final ability!

I'm loathe to admit it, but am struggling mightily with the jumps on the lower section of level 41. I see what people are complaning about regarding the pixel specific issues.

About level 41:
I think that's the section where you're supposed to use the

I do find myself wishing there were mid-level saves sometimes. In level 30 it seemed like I had to

which is four places that I can fail (in increasingly demanding ways; the first one allows a lot of room for ever, the last one I think is pixel-precise). But it's pretty tiresome to have to redo the first three every time I fail the fourth, which means a lot of redoing the first two every time I fail the third.

I don't know what to do about this, short of going full-on Braid and allowing the player to rewind time (or so I hear). But it is a problem, for me. (I wound up taking the easy way out, which was actually sort of fun anyway.)

My game crashed on Level 46 too. There's something wrong with that new skill i reckon.

Never mind, it worked when I reloaded, and I finished the game. Wasn't as difficult as you guys are making it out to be - my 'problem levels' weren't 28 or 41, at any rate.

My game crashed on level 46 as well, and reloading hasn't helped. Boo.

The good karma ending is quite cool, made up for a lot of trouble!

For posterity's sake, I did get my game going again -- I hear the crash has something to do with hitting "shift" on level 46, though I don't think I did that every time.

Anyway, excellent game, some minor UI hassles and that crash aside. One thing I liked is that very often, when I'd spent a lot of time trying to make some seemingly impossible jump, I realized that I should be doing something completely different. Although the thing I needed to do was often pretty impossible anyway. The last few levels seemed to rely a little too heavily on "Do several difficult jumps and some stuff in between, and if you do the last one wrong do them all again" gameplay, but really quite clever overall.

Anyone know how to get to the challenge levels?

Fun game. Not nearly as difficult as the review suggests; I was only really frustrated twice; once I skipped the level on the mistaken belief that I'd be able to come back and try it again, and again on level 31, which requires a difficult jump at the very end.

Level replay option is a must, however.

Level 34 did me in, I cannot seem to time the fall+right arrow properly to trigger the red switch. Oh well.