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"The laser speeds up over time; climb quickly in the beginning to help ensure that you're not overtaken in the more technical areas later."
Seriously? Who wrote that? Was it one of the developers? It's true that the laser speeds up as you climb, but since the laser *also* teleports so that it's never more than a screen away from you, going fast at the start makes precisely Jack **** of a difference. I know; I've done experiments. How can you not know how your *own game* works?
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Three elements of very bad design in this game:
1. RubberBandAI: The laser teleports or speeds up so that it never gets a certain distance behind you (just under the bottom of the screen). Therefore, there is no advantage to going fast, ever, except to just save time. Not rewarding the player for a good performance is bad design.
2. There are no protections to prevent the spikes from appearing in a configuration that cannot be passed. Impassable barriers are bad design.
3. The player has no 'safety catch', no way of altering his movement beyond a (rather small) amount of jump height control, and most of that has to be done before you land from the last jump, making it useless for quick reactions. Not allowing the player options to deal with the game's challenges is bad design.
2/5, though I admit most of that is for the Hard badge, which really should have been an Impossible one.
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Instead of jumping on the walls like a ninja out of hell why doesn't the lil purple guyl just stand on-top of the metal part of the laser shooters...?
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every time i see a game called something like escape, i think of the typical clic here then there puzzle game... this game=way more awesom
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by readng the comments i was like, "hey! i think it possible to fall down before the lazer turns on!" so i did it... but raged after realizing the lazr wont move. -__-
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If there is a giant laser beam that protects the bottom and the whole chamber, then how did this person get down there? 0.o