joppo: Well there are runes that really help you staying alive like the double jump, and also some that give extra money on each coin you get. You'll eventually get them, but yeah you definitely need to improve yourself more than the character. So do I.
Just so. And I did get one of the Bounty runes that increases the gold, it's just that I've hit the level where all the upgrades cost a bit more than I seem to be able to collect before death. Being a better player is most certainly the key at that point.
IAmSinistar: I hope it's not considered a detrimental trait, as that would be an unfortunate attitude on the part of the game creators. Hopefully it just has cosmetic effects like some of the other traits.
joppo: Well just like genetics itself there's every sort of trait on a descendant and some of them are bad but some are great too. I avoid vertigo like the plague because it causes you to play the game upside-down. It
did give me a headache when I tried.
On the other hand you can have eidetic memory. It causes you to see your enemies on the minimap. That's a great help.
Yes, I'm fine with there being positive and negative traits, as well as decorative ones (I tend to get Coprolalia a lot, as well as Nostalgia, which makes everything sepia tinted.) I just hope that being gay isn't considered a negative trait, as that's would be an unfortunate attitude to have. As I said, I suspect it just has some kind of minor decorative effect that I haven't noticed yet.
EDIT: And I did try a character with Vertigo once and actually got quite far with them. Having to think about the controls seemed to make me play more carefully and not barrel into traps and such.