Astrobot can be annoyingly hard! Need difficulty modes?!?

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[Twinwar]

Those bonus courses that are associated with the PlayStation shapes. Those are the hard levels. they’re designed to give hard-core platform a boost in difficulty.

[anthonyblanton]

Elden ring (no difficulty options)= greatest of all time and no difficulty options are necessary
Astrobot(accessible for 5 year olds)= too difficult and needs difficulty options

[GiulianoPicciotti]

Im having Metroid Dread flashbacks lol

[RobotOdell]

I think those Triangle levels are supposed to be challenge levels. I had a hard time as well, but it was fun to ultimately get past it.

[nickwiley]

He’s gotta be trolling us at this point lmfao

[TheTurquoiseAlien]

I do feel like you're sort of off base. A game shouldn't have to cater to absolutely everybody for completing a game to 100%. A game in this genre should be playable by everyone for the main courses, but if the bonus levels want to add difficulty then I'm all for it. I've had a blast with all of the difficult levels. In terms of collecting everything, there's a bird you can pay at the beginning of every level to help with finding all the secrets.

[sidewinder]

The thing here is contrast. Astro Bot looks like a cheerful game for children, but then suddenly these challenge levels start kicking your ass. And that contrast is frustrating. There's almost zero challenge in main courses, but these little fast extra ones sometimes take 10+ attempts (the final one 50+). A little bit uneven, but I got that platinum

[breadordecide]

This is the Nintendo model with kirby and most of their games. Hard Mode is the 100% collectathon. Easy mode is simply beat all the levels and final boss.

[XJLoL]

I will also add, being stuck for 30 attempts isn't that long considering each attempt is like 30~ seconds. You had it on your last run, but you had to just hold forward.

[spectrebull]

I just don't think platformers are your thing. I play a bunch of 3D platformers, and I had no issue with Astro Bot. Only 2 or 3 courses gave me some trouble on the first playthrough, but...idk, man. I don't see the problem here. The Void courses are meant to be challenging, and if the Triangle courses are giving you that much trouble, then just avoid those.

[steven_lobo]

But... You can literally slide on the triangles an infinite amount of time until you are confortable to jump between the enemies... This wasn't that challenging at all, there's not even any kind of time or enemy pressure. Maybe you just played too much and need to sleep, and when you play the game again tomorrow you will go through this level like it was nothing. But I understand your point of the interface showing things of the harder levels that can frustrate a bit the casual players (at the same time I dont think I totally agree...).

[britishyankee]

Astro Bot is an easy game to win and a hard game to 100%. The built in difficulty curve extends way past the finish line.

[lauranderuiter]

Honestly Jaffe you’re not really that good at platformers.

[ThiagoRibeiro-cgwo]

My 8 year old is almost finishing the game and never complained. Also, he doesn’t have all the fingers in one of his hands, but still manage to clear everything.

[FishopolisDoc]

This game is comically easy. Sometimes it feels like you're advocating for the total destruction of games as a medium simply because you're too high to be even slightly inconvenienced . It's like asking for Eric Carle to make his picture books easier to understand because someone out there might not get that the caterpillar is hungry.

[GripChief]

This is the journalist mode mentality. People who don't want to invest time, learning mechanics and improving at the game. Instead they want to jump in and complete a game quickly, with zero challenge and move on to the next game.

[tonefrost]

299/300 bots splashing sprint sucks....

[lfreemo]

The bonus levels are meant to be the challenge of the game, the main levels are just fun and pretty easy, so nothing to complain about here.

[G.H.E.T.T.O.G.O.D.]

None of this game is as hard as Crash Bandicoot games. Fuck those games for being as hard as they are, and you have to beat those levels to progress in those games, at least these levels are optional.

[NerdPixelz]

Just got the Platinum, easily my GOTY, the duck void level and the FINAL gold statue level were the most annoying I’m the entire game, stick with it cause you’ll get through it.