I liked how the early bits felt like a meta-commentary on games (i.e. how many platformers are really just spotting the “clear” moment in a pattern) and I liked how the later bits then left this behind and started developing their own, puzzle-y feel.

Yeah, pretty sure I spent longer writing this comment than playing the game.

I like this game a ton.

But I don’t think I understand why there’s both a timer and a life-count. Could you even possibly run out of lives before running out of time? (I’d like to play a version with the timer absent completely. The timer pretty much just makes it so success is predicated on having already learned the more complex patterns, making it ultimately unfeasible to take your time, observe each pattern, and then cautiously proceed.)