The task of taking an unfinished game and restructuring it to appear as a finished one was probably one of the most unique challenges I have ever faced. Simply because of the nature of the task, the game has several rough edges that are almost impossible to hide without a significant construction on top of the existing content, which defeats the original purpose of the project: releasing the already completed content for others to experience, rather than leaving the game to rot on my hard drive.

Admittedly, there are some things I would have done differently with the game considering the experience I have now. The "incomplete" levels would abruptly end with road construction signs blocking the rest of the level, cutting the experience short with little to no gameplay. After release, I received a suggestion that instead proposed the idea of presenting the incomplete levels as mere dioramas of the levels' aesthetics and central mechanic that could be viewed by the player through other means. This removes the unnecessary playtime of venturing through a level that was never fully realized, while still preserving the history of the game.

One of the biggest criticisms upon the game's release was its difficulty balancing. In an effort to preserve the previously completed content to the fullest extent, I made minimal changes to each level's design before release. I later realized this was a mistake. Each level included in the game was intended to be experienced by the player at very different points throughout the original adventure. Playing each one of them back-to-back would in no way create a cohesive difficulty curve. In addition to this, all testing before release was related to bugs and system functionality, almost entirely ignoring actual level design, meaning that anything that should have been caught during design testing for the original game wasn't caught during testing for Luigi's Lost Memories. Most of the difficulty balancing was addressed in later patches.