Re: FantasionR(FanGame) Update...finally....
This game has a lot of promise but navigating the bugs was a real challenge.
A few tips for anyone who gives it a go (i've tried to form them as constructive criticism for the creator too.):
Don't grind to level 3 straight away, first try to dash through the first stage and complete the second one before. If you die you can't save and you'll lose all your progress. The second stage is really tough. Jumping over the obstacles takes a lot of getting used to and the first high obstacle is horribly glitchy.
The easiest way to complete this is by dashing then mid dash do a jump, this will make a really quick long jump which is really handy in the first level too.
On stage 2, there's a point where you have to jump onto a rock ledge to another rock ledge on the left. This part is very difficult. The only way I have figured out how to do it is to do a left running jump, let go of the left key mid jump then mash dash all while holding the jump key. It seems that the game doesn't allow the super dash jump when travelling left and has real trouble doing any kind of mid air dash when facing left (I think it's only when the left button is pressed.)
Once you've mastered stage 2 THEN start grinding before attempting stage 3, but I've not passed this one yet. I think that grinding to level 3 isn't high level enough as you're tasked with killing 50 enemies (I think?) which is really excessive. Some are the red ones which will halve your health in a few seconds. I'm not sure if levelling up increases your health total but I think it does.
Occasionally the character will stop attacking if the attack button is held, so mash the attack button rather than holding it to avoid the mobs getting close.
When fighting enemies to grind or in stage 3 (Just avoid them in stage 2, it takes a decent amount of time to figure out that jump even if you know how), make sure to try and only fight one at a time and stay as stationary as possible. If you run a screen away from enemies they will occasionally respawn, but from what I can tell moving around too much makes them spawn more quickly too. Try to stay as stationary as possible and fight a maximum of 2 dudes at a time.
Apparantly the save functioin works after the first stage (is that a set of stages?) but it doesn't work on any of these 3. Loading your game will send you to the first level with the objectives of the stage you were on before and reset your level. So if you were on the second stage then you'll end up on the first with the time carried over from the second stage. When it runs out you'll just die. Interestingly if you save on the third level the enemy counter stays the same. But at level 1 I can't even kill one of the enemies to see if it changes when they die.
Hope that helps to anyone brave enough to give this one a go. It's not easy but the animations are slick and the gameplay (though not particularly fun at this present time) is really promising. I can see myself having a lot of fun with this one in the future.
