Oh no...it's one of those games...might not be good for my blood pressure and anxiety levels.

Not that this looks bad per se, but it's a bit rich calling a game that could be easily mistaken for a million other indie pixel art platformers "fresh and modern design".

You know what would be fresh though? An indie pixel art platformer that has fun, balanced difficulty instead of being yet another ballbuster.

I can only agree 100%! :)

I have no idea how is the actual implementation, but the game page does explicitly say "Pick a difficulty from casual to hardcore and choose a gameplay style that suits you the best."

So unless this is an odd mirror of the usual git-good crowd's cries, trying to claim that an accessible/balanced difficulty should be the only options and it's bad for devs to actually offer a harder difficulty for the players that want it... I don't get the issue in these comments? Unless you actually played the demo and found the easier difficulty options to still try and be too difficult/"hardcore"?