I finished off the day by doing a few more N+ episodes from the third level pack, though I probably shouldn’t have, for the sake of my blood pressure. One level in particular, named “the long and winding road that leads to your death” was full of precision wall-jumping and mine dodging and must have taken at least 30 or 40 tries. When you do something that often, you can often get the timing down precise enough that you’re taking the same path and hitting the same enemy patrol pattern each time, though that sometimes leads you to getting yourself killed in the exact same way as you did on a previous run…

N+ is still a good game, but I think I’ve hit the limit of my ability with it, and any further progress just isn’t worth the frustration.