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Generally easy to do if you have kewl skills like me >.<
finished in 37:44 with 32 deaths on HARD not the best but its only because of my noob com :)

Take note i'm a strategist and can plan well so i rarely make too many mistakes
so try to be nice and make a Normal mode where there are less obstacles but using the same type of map

Nice game, but harder mode is really hard lol

The final room (or what I'm assuming the final room is) is difficult to the point of being tedious. I spent over half an hour destroying the three crystals again and again dying several times every step of the way having to redo the room over and over and over again.

Heck I had to halfway cheat on the red crystal, rather than climb up to face it directly I just shot black bullets at it from the floor.

After FINALLY getting the three crystals destroyed fighting the rainbow boss I end up dying before I can even get a feel for the rhythm of the fight. Usually this is from me shifting from black to white or vice versa directly into a projectile.

In the end I got fed up with it. I'd like to beat the game and see whatever ending there is but I honestly don't want to spend the hours it's apparently going to take repeatedly failing for each and every slight tiny mistake, misttiming, mispress, or even just plain bad luck when I happen to fall on top of a projectile.

All in all you have a well put together game. The visuals are excellent, the premise is clever and the puzzles are challenging. The final puzzle is disproportionately difficult simply due to the length and steps involved.

But this can be fixed in several different ways.

1. Retool the puzzle to be slightly less difficult.
2. Enable a respawn point after destroying one or three of the crystals.
3. Allow the player to leave the room and while saving the status of which crystals were destroyed.
4. Implement some sort of health system (which may be as simple as allowing allowing the player to be hit twice before respawn).
5. Prevent rainbow man from shooting until he is once again viewable by the player. (I think once I fell on his projectile, but that may have just been an earlier room that my frustrated brain is mixing into this problem.)
6. In a similar vein to 3 and 4, split the final room into two, like so: After the player breaks the crystals rainbow man runs to the next room in a fit of panic since he is now vulnerable. The final room makes the final fight even deadlier (maybe more shurikens, maybe rainbowman can jump/shoot upwards) but more forgiving as a whole because the puzzle section has been split from the battle. Thus removing the annoyingly difficult tasks of dealing with the three crystals AGAIN, after the slightest mistake results in your death.

Anyway. Rant over. I might try to beat the level again in a few days... Maybe. But right now I'm thinking probably not.

NIce game. Reminds me of Ikaruga

Amazing, I got to the part where I can teleport, with 200 deaths it took me 1 hour