Izel's Observatory

I was really impressed with this game but the difficulty curve when you reach the eel is too steep. The eel is too fast, you can't navigate out of your shell fast enough and you bounce too much inside it.

Eel escape scene was WAAAAAAY too long. I was having a ton of fun with this until that section. obstacles weren't telegraphed very well, and setting the eel to stay relative to the players position made playing well seem unrewarding.

the eel escape sequence has some intense rubberbanding

this an the fact that the camera stays fixed with the player at the center instead of panning foward makes it feel quite unfair

This was a fun game to play, I stopped at the eel chase but overall I love this style of game.

Maybe tone down how much of a pinball the dash makes ya if ya use this for anythin.

Playthrough of my first game, really the concept of the game is smaller than I imagined, but the final part is quite complicated and took most of the time, I guess the difficulty could be adjusted a bit in the last segment of the eel but otherwise I liked the concept of an underwater metroidvania a lot, the sensation of mobility and dynamism felt quite fluid and pleasant to what I suppose becomes the requirement of the final part.

good game, (final?) boss sucks really hard.
like I made it to the third chase area but seriously, even dark hidden paths?
how you expect me to react when this thing tries to bite me nonstop?

sure hope that one day we get a full game.
doubt it though since its been like 4 years without any news :-(

Hello, I played Izel's Observatory and find this game very interesting. Even though the game is short, most due to an other game coming, I really find this a great game. It's something I never knew existed. The final Boss is very complicated. Sadly the Music is a bit repetitive though, but overall it's good to play. I made a video about this game if someone is interested in watching it. 

Man that boss is hard. I have to give up. But the rest of the game is really good. Is there any story after you get to the top

looks like timespinner

F*ck that last boss and spikes

cool game but that boss is ridiculously hard, especially in the zig zag section! :'-(

Hoo boy, that final sequence sure was unnecessarily unforgiving.

Suggestions:

- Add checkpoints.

- Add those bitey-clam enemies after getting the nautilus spikes, so we learn we can defeat them with the spikes. I died a bunch in the final chase trying to spear the clams, since that's how you fight them the first (and only) time you see them beforehand.

- Jigger the controls on gamepads. Currently on my 360 pad, Y X A and RT do spear, and LT and RT do nautilus roll, which can lead to some weird behavior when using the RT.

Other than these, great demo! Looking forward to a full game :).

And I got to finish the boss chase right after recording. Hope to see more of Izel, keep up the good dev work! :)

Absolutely loved this one! Would definetly love to see it win and be made into a full game. That being said, jesus, that final chase was BRUTAL. Took me at least 50 tries to finally get through it. But hey, at least the visuals are amazing, but I expected no less from ya~

Really fun! Feels like The Little Mermaid combined with Shovel Knight. I very much enjoyed it and would love to see more if you  continue with it. Super impressive for a month of work, great job.

Looks Neato~