Horse Runner DX

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Galloppel galloppel. Hüpf hüpf.

The Gameplay itself is good, but the fast moving pixel background makes my eyes hurt. Tried to change settings but its still to much,

The coloring of the background rocks and the rocks you can collide with are too similar. I can't tell which obstacles I should jump over and which are just aesthetics. Just feels so cheap and frustrating to die because of bad clarity. With better visual clarity I think I could find myself playing this game for hours, but not as it is in its current state

I don't know what possessed me to buy or to play this, as I am not a... uhh.. horse guy. I think I was hoping it would be like Dino Run or Bit Trip Runner. Needless to say, I played it and I am going to recommend it given the promise of the game, the price, and to support the developer BUT I have some issues with the game, and addressing these I think could improve the game: When you get going really fast the background chunks which is uncomfortable on the eyes and makes it tough to time jumps. I tried changing refresh rates, frame rates, VSync, parallax effects, etc., but to no avail. It seems from comments I am not the only one who has this problem. I see there are a lot of options in settings for this, but that signals to me that the developers may know this is a problem and put it on the user to solve. This isn't Call of Duty, It should run clean and smooth at 60fps on capable hardware out of the box. It's hard to see items you hit sometimes as they sort of blend in to the background. I didn't understand why sometimes trailing horses hit objects that my lead horse had cleared. I was looking forward to the herd building mechanic, but honestly, I bounced off before I got any interesting horses. After unlocking a few, it was just... more apples, more score, one more speed. Where are the crazy ass horses that can double jump, add 5 speed, levitate, resurrect other horses, smash through rocks, etc? Maybe they come later but I was expecting a little more variety and a touch of ridiculousness, even in the early going. I was not a fan of the music which has a very cutesy vibe, but that's just me.

My pony died cause i wasn't fast enough..