I love the Super Adventure Box, I think it is a great idea, and well executed. But I did want to offer a bit of constructive criticism on how some parts of it could be improved.
It would help a lot if the achievement for collecting every Baubel in a stage, tracked them as you collected them. Right now its always stuck on 0%, and jumps to 100% after collecting them all. It would help if we could see how many Baubels were left in a stage.
Some jumps, especially the one in World 1 Stage 1 (the secret cave behind the waterfall) are too tight. They are barely doable, even with a running jump. And with the camera backed in a corner like that, that jump is way harder to make than it should be. Please make this jump a bit easier. I am of course talking about the jump that comes after the two jets of water. Try and not make jumps that are exactly at the maximum jump distance.
There are various platforms in Super Adventure Box that the character can barely stand on, and that are attached to a wall. When ever the character is this close to a wall, the camera goes nuts! Please try and give platforms an average width, and not make them as thin as a needle.
While we’re at it, fix that camera please. When ever it is too close to the ground, or any object comes in between it and the player, it goes insane. It bounces back and forth constantly, and that’s very nauseating. And it makes platforming way harder than it needs to be.
The big slam attack of the Frog boss is nearly impossible to dodge, which is very frustrating. Even when you know its coming, it still hits you as you dodge-roll. I think this could be made a bit easier.
Fix the targeting! It is really hard to select the frog boss, or the necklace. And if the wrong one is selected, your character will throw every gem into the ground!
Targeting the boss is really hard, due to the targeting system still being broken. Selecting just the necklace of the boss for example, is near impossible to do during combat.
Make cinematics skippable please.
The bombs that monkeys throw, sometimes still hit you, after you dodged them.
If you fall to your death in a pitfall, it will sometimes respawn you in a spot that instantly drops you into the pit again, thus robbing you of two lives at once.
Please provide a quick way for people to rejoin the final boss battle after using a continue coin.
The bee queens aren’t much of a threat, due to the fact that they can be stun-locked so easily with the whip.
It would be nice if it made a difference where you used the shovel. Now it just seems to randomly drop Baubels or bunnies. There is no difference between Baubel rich and Baubel depleted areas. I’m not sure if such a mechanic is possible, but I wanted to suggest it none the less.
Waiting for a character to stop talking, before being able to use their services, is a bit annoying. This mostly applies to Moto when you want to hand him your coin.
Please don’t make us whip a turtle or crocodile from a sinking lily pad in hazardous water. Those things sink instantly, which means we sacrifice health to hit the kitten animal.
EDIT: I removed the one regarding the shovel, people were right! I found a spot where it works today! Also added a few new suggestions below:
Allow us to smash pots and furniture by hitting them, instead of picking them up.
I miss snakes and monkeys far too often, even when I’m straight in front of them. make the stick hit in a wider arch to prevent this.
Make weapons such as the whip activate faster. The wind up animation to the actual hit takes too long.
Make the catapult shoot at your selected target, instead of straight ahead.
Allow us to instantly pick up baubels that spawn on top of our characters. Its annoying having to move back and forth for every pot you smash, and every enemy you kill.
