Furfly

I like the aesthetic, but Furfly otherwise commits an unfortunate number of mistakes. The main issues here tie in with Furfly's rather strict time limits. While levels having strict time limits is not a bad thing in and of itself, the game doesn't properly take this into account. Most notably, the positions of moving hazards are not reset upon death. As hazard positions don't reset, it's far too easy to run into a situation where you sail past a hazard on one attempt and on the next attempt you waste precious seconds waiting for that same hazard to move out of the way, which in turn causes you to run out of time before reaching the goal. The second problem is the respawn system. Games like this, where deaths are common, normally have instantaneous respawns, but respawning in Furfly takes a few agonizing seconds every time. What's more, the camera doesn't snap back to the start of the level, but instead only starts to move back *after* you have respawned. This can be a real problem on larger levels because you can actually respawn before the camera reaches you, forcing you to choose between flying blind for a second or two or wasting that precious second or two waiting for the camera - which in turn almost certainly would result in running out of time an inch before the goal and once more needing to wait for the camera to make its way back to start. Additionally, the hitboxes are off. Specifically, some of the hitboxes in Furfly are slightly *larger* than the objects. Fly too close to a sawblade and the empty air around it will turn your poor fly into a bloody splatter on the white void. To be clear, as this is a rather major issue to accuse a game of having, I went through my own footage frame-by-frame and also looked at gameplay videos from other players to confirm this. Mechanics aside, the level design is also all over the place. While many levels have incredibly strict time limits, others give a huge amount of leeway. Difficulty varies wildly through all 100 levels with no real sense of a curve; some early levels are incredibly brutal while many levels near the end of the game pose nearly no challenge at all. The levels themselves also tend to feel very repetitive with the same exact hazard copy/pasted 5+ times in a row and entire segments between levels are virtually identical with very minor changes in hazard placement. On top of all of this, the later levels start adding in dead-ends where the only reward for making it through a gauntlet is a wall and the only option is to try again down a different path. Furfly's a pretty simple game, so there's not much that it can do wrong. Unfortunately, the things it *does* do wrong often go against basic game design sensibilities, making for an experience which is frustrating both in level design and mechanics.