[Normal/Hard], [Misc] - Oriante

From the start, the daytime/nighttime switch is a great idea to implement, only it is not clear at all if the switch changes anything but the visuals. I still have no idea. From the description ("[Normal/Hard]") I assumed there would be two difficulty levels and thought the switch might have something to do with that, but apparently it doesnt, or at least the first screens did not become any easier/harder at nighttime. It's also very frustrating to know that the switch is so far away from the exit - that would mean that if I wanted to explore at night or during the day, I'd have to go through all those challenges again... twice. Ugh! And then there's the "no run powerup at the start" problem, which I guess is a matter of personal opinion... but a lot of walking simply doesn't feel very good in KS levels, in my experience. It's so slow!

It was nicer and much less frustrating outside the complex - I'm guessing the narrow corridors made things harder than they should've been, for me at least. Can't comment on too many things, but one aspect in particular was problematic - the spikes on square blocks. The one block immediately accessible is the one with the save point, and it's grey, while its neighbour is blue and covered in spikes. This instantly sends the message "blue = spikes, grey = safe", which, as the player soon finds out, is incorrect; spikes in fact are everywhere and no color coding is present. Just a minor point, but an irritating one.

I was able to obtain the ghost eye (I can elaborate if anyone wishes to know how). However, after searching the entire level in day and night, I did not come across a place to use it, unless...

There is a platform in the upper left of the screen one up and two to the left of the beginning of the long bridge to the shipyard. Jumping off from here causes a few clouds to come into view and plays music that does not seem to be heard elsewhere in the level. There is also a pipe that extends off to the left, seemingly to nowhere. Is there a location that can be reached from here?

It's also very frustrating to know that the switch is so far away from the exit - that would mean that if I wanted to explore at night or during the day, I'd have to go through all those challenges again... twice.

There is actually another location you may sleep at:

The eye is exclusively used for the deadly rain that falls on that scene. Originally, it was part of a larger level idea -- the entire island and complex was accessible in that raining moment, you could see that the underground base was flooded, and I thought about including another character in that scene. The problem is, if you want to do that with the deadly drops, you have to place costum objects to cover the drops on each and every scene to make it seem like it's raining, rather than a long line of dropping objects in the sky, and I lost motivation. You can peep into the editor and remove the custom object on that screen to see what I'm talking about. You can go around the glyphs by spotting shining spots on the ships, but the eye isn't involved -- I wasn't even aware you could go any other way through that part.

You see how the pipe leads out from the left of that starting platform? I was sort of in love with how it looked. But when I realized that you could jump from it to the left, I needed either a) the pipe to be interrupted from one screen to the next or b) to put in a place-holder that made it look slightly less odd. b)'s what it is. Not sure it works though. The different music is an error, shouldn't be there!

On walking: it was really important for me to walk underground as a way of setting mood, versus running overground... but people do seem to have responded negatively to that...
On night/daytime: there are different story aspects accesible by day and by night ; otherwise, it was an experiment in trying two different ways of placing enemies and detailing some minor aspects in the atmosphere. There's no clear cut division to either, I sort of wanted it to be a "hey, do it this way, do it that way, try again, please yourself!" mechanic. Also, you can go from one to the other, as pie_sniper pointed out, by sleeping at the corner with the "observation" sign!
On difficulty/design: yeah, there's issues there, since the game accidentally ended up as a challenge one and I didn't really have a clue how to pull one off... the bit you mention about blue/grey squares is really useful and something I hadn't realized!... I think there's aspects of gameplay that needed to be streamlined and I do wish it was an easier level... I did change it after beta testing to be lighter, but still