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I agree with mude... the developer really showed a lot of love for this game... updates coming for years!!

mude89, I can only say... thank you :)

JohnColburn, thanks for playing the demo and sharing your thoughts :)

"tougher and tougher" mission: yes, that mission is really hard. Starts easy, gets tough. It's meant to show how deep the game can go. But please keep in mind that not all missions are that though - indeed, the difficulty of "tougher and tougher" is rated "very hard", but the full game, besides the "very hard" missions, has tens of missions with lower difficulty (namely, "very easy", "easy", "average", "hard").

Graphic system: glad you liked it :)

Respawning: yes, the respawning is meant to have exactly the effect you experienced, that is, pressuring the player while he's trying to find the right path in the maze. However - this is a general advice I always give to everybody - one should never fear enemies too much, nor, even more importantly, spend time fighting them: the less time is spent fighiting, the better! ;)

Difficulty in general: (hint) have you tried to set the game difficulty to "easy" from the options menu? This is what it does (taken from the user's manual): "The 'easy' option reduces the enemies spawning rate, increases the weapons power by 1 LP and allows to restart from the last phase played" - this greatly helps especially in missions like "tougher and tougher" ;)

Ah, forgot to mention: of course one's shooting skills improve with practice, so don't worry too much about not being good enough right from the start ;)

Ah, that 'easy' setting sounds like exactly the right thing! I gave up on "Harder and Harder" because I could get to the third phase, but then I'd get stuck or killed and have to start over from the very beginning. I'll have to give it another try with the difficulty turned down.

Have fun!