Lawks! It all sounds reet lovely. I especially like the idea of having to squish the plants early on to save yourself hassle later on. Are you perhaps considering having some levels structured like Defender whereby the introduction on enemies is strictly timed so that after X seconds a squad of aliens beams in at a particular location and after Y seconds something else happens so that the player has to dash from place to place to get the drop on the enemies and it makes people who are familiar with the level able to deal with it easily, make it nice and learnable.
Btw, you mention random moving enemies. Truly random or semi-predictable as I hate dying because of something I had no control over like the stompers in the Monty games?
Btw, you mention random moving enemies. Truly random or semi-predictable as I hate dying because of something I had no control over like the stompers in the Monty games?