I would suggest lowering the difficulty by a large amount, adding looping 8-bit music, and giving players encouraging messages/rewards. (e.g. "Good!" for passing five barriers, "Great!" for passing ten, etc.) This game has potential!
Reviews for "Ironpants"
After reading something about "hardest" and "ever", I was actually intrested about playing this.
Now, I feel like the whole challenge of this game, is spending time trying to learn these completely unusual controls. Some times he goes up at the speed of light, sometimes he almost don't move when I want him to go up.
I just don't know, if making the game, based around weird controls is a good idea. I would rather play some challenging 2D platformer (...*cough* meatboy *cough* ...).
And this is just my opinion, so no need to hate. This is NOT a horrible game, just not very good.
Peace, and good luck in making more games in the future.
Next time you make a game, let the player have reaction time.
Holy F*** it's hard! Good dev though! All my 5s belong to you
Wow. That's one stiff difficulty curve.