[Version] Little Fighter ½

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Been playing stage mode for a few days, just long enough to beat stage 4 on difficult (remember, I play in bullet time). Initial thoughts:

• Fighting mobs is much more difficult, due to the nerfing of the dash attack, but fighting one guy is still a chore (Firzen and Julian (or Chris and Joe or whatever their names are) are more of a challenge, but still). 3 punches, grab, 9 punches, pick up and throw if you're feeling aggressive, lather rinse repeat.
  
• Teleport is still useless; in LF2 I occasionally teleport to friend when I accidentally jump instead of dash and the crowds below are clamoring for my blood, and in PvP teleport+tiger dash is a cute combination, but I think you've made it even more useless. Not your fault.
  
• You can get a real juggling act going by spamming projectiles at one guy. Cheap? Increase the knockback so you can't do this? How does LF1 handle this, or is this juggling possible in LF1 as well?
  
• If you press Attack while standing over a pick-up-able guy and a weapon, you get the weapon, and the guy goes in the air like he was just released from your grip. Same bug in LF2 when you grab a guy who's on the same spot as another grabbable guy.
  
• It doesn't save a recording when you complete a stage. Maybe because there's only one act?
  
• You've probably noticed this, but the boomerang looks funny when bouncing after having dropped.
  
• Rudolf's head disappears during his flying throw animation.
  
• I find the passwords far easier to remember by position (e.g. 1st button, 3rd button, 4th button, 2nd button) than color. Just sayin'.
  
• The bats in stage 1 that come before the boss fight can hit the bandits and each other. I only mention this because it's amusing, heh heh.
  
• The second last fight before the boss fight in stage 2, where you fight 3 guys, is great! The fight doesn't go the same every time. Ingenuity can produce badass-looking results.
  
• Nice job with the stage 2 boss' AI, but he seems not able to pick up items when you're not on the same line as him. He just stands on the item dopily until you enter his line. And he's totally unable to pick up crates and boulders.
  
• Deep doesn't seem to know that his sword can shoot. And I think he's trying to do D>A and just ends up defending, not sure.
  
• In stage 3, it's so annoying when Rudolf turns invisible as soon as his god-gifted invisiblity runs out. Urgh.
  
• ...But not nearly as annoying as Henry right after Rudolf. It seems he continuously shoots arrows while he's beyond the right boundary, slowly inching forward as he does so. I found the best way to wait him out is to stand there defending the arrows until he runs out of mana. One time, when he had already come out of that unreachable area, he summoned a bow (or picked his old one up, don't remember), ran out past the right boundary, and resumed shooting arrows! He just would not come out!!! At that time, I hadn't discovered the trick of exhausting his mana by defending his arrows, so I had to quit. Anyway, I think he should spawn where he can be reached. Unless that causes other problems.
  
• Again, love the fight before Firzen/Chris.
  
• Firzen/Chris does not seem to run out of mana, and he explodes every time you go near him!! I found the only way I could beat him was to stand at a distance so he summons a yellow ball in his hand, then run up and punch him before he throws it.
  
• 3000 health?! What were you thinking? Also, that multi-explosion thing is super cheap (looks like something out of RLF2 or LF3 or whatnot, honestly), I try to keep him low on mana so he doesn't do it.