I had so much fun with the first Super Adventure Box and went through and got every achievement, but this new stuff… I just cannot put up with it.
I’m fine with difficult jumps, and difficult combat, but world 2-1 is just infuriating now. First of all you adjusted all the crocodiles so that they’re just barely in range, or just out of range of the whip. Great. Thanks. I really have a lot of baubles to spare on slingshots and bombs after spending them all last time right? Did you guys consider that? I wanted to pick up where I left off, but I didn’t have the raw resources to continue in a lot of places. Those toads are absolutely un-killable without slingshots or bombs.
The worst part is though that when you TRY to hit them with slingshots or bombs you just miss. Because the targeting in Super Adventure Box is. the. worst. thing. ever. of. all. time. When you’re working already on limited resources and you keep missing your shots when you have the enemy targeted and you’re looking right at them, toes facing forward, pointing at them like an arrow, and your bombs and slingshots go flying off. I wasted like 20 baubles firing my slingshot at a toad in a furious rage. This isn’t retro hard, it’s stupid. When I swing my sword in Ninja Gaiden, it works.
And then I finally get past that second toad, take a second to watch the pattern of the two geysers and the fish going over, and then with confidence take my jump. I hope to the second geyser, land on it and Wuuhhh… I’m falling off and sailing down the river. 10 times I attempted that. Ten times I timed it correctly, ten times I failed. These rapids are AWFUL.
So I switched to tribulation mode. Jumped the spikes, walked a few steps… dead. Oh. I see. It’s ‘I Wanna Be The Guy’ GW-Style. Cool. Not for me. Was expecting a genuine hard mode. Though I will say, that it was pretty amusing, and the first time I jumped on that big rock at the beginning of world 1 and it flew up in the air, I think I almost had a heart attack. It’s a funny supplementary mode but I don’t have the patience for that.
I know you see a lot of difficulty complaints on these forums and I’ve read a lot of those threads myself in the past, but I just want you guys to know that this is the opinion of a guy that’s done all the jumping puzzles. I love them to death and thinks they’re the greatest part of the game, and I just cannot put up with this new Super Adventure Box design because your ranged attacks do not work properly. You should have done more testing to come to that conclusion yourself before putting it out in the wild. Just saying. So I cannot continue playing this unless it’s somehow fixed via a patch, because I will just end up crushing my Razer Naga into a fine powder in a delusional ragestorm. I do not want that.