Posted May 20, 2016
Playing more Geometry Dash, and it's actually interesting.
The jumping seems very straightforward, very dull, but if you don't pay attention, you'll move just enough to one side or another that you'll gradually get closer and closer to obstacles with every jump until you kill yourself running into things.
The other thing I'm finding unique about it is that they included a mechanic that makes it so you have to be calm, no matter what.
If you so much as hold down the jump button for an extra fraction of a second out of tension, the usual game player reflex to push the button harder, it will set off a second jump as soon as you land. That will more often than not be enough to kill you as you fly into something as the level's whizzing by.
Along with that, they chose to include a practice mode where you can place your own checkpoints.
You can't legitimately complete the level that way, but it works really well for planting a checkpoint at the beginning of a difficult spot like the one I've died almost 300 times figuring out (upside down level sections at high speed...my head hurts).
You still have to complete the run perfectly to get credit for it, but it's a nice thing to have so you don't have to grind yourself silly on earlier sections just to get to the spot that you're stuck on.
The jumping seems very straightforward, very dull, but if you don't pay attention, you'll move just enough to one side or another that you'll gradually get closer and closer to obstacles with every jump until you kill yourself running into things.
The other thing I'm finding unique about it is that they included a mechanic that makes it so you have to be calm, no matter what.
If you so much as hold down the jump button for an extra fraction of a second out of tension, the usual game player reflex to push the button harder, it will set off a second jump as soon as you land. That will more often than not be enough to kill you as you fly into something as the level's whizzing by.
Along with that, they chose to include a practice mode where you can place your own checkpoints.
You can't legitimately complete the level that way, but it works really well for planting a checkpoint at the beginning of a difficult spot like the one I've died almost 300 times figuring out (upside down level sections at high speed...my head hurts).
You still have to complete the run perfectly to get credit for it, but it's a nice thing to have so you don't have to grind yourself silly on earlier sections just to get to the spot that you're stuck on.
Post edited May 20, 2016 by CarrionCrow
