It is short, but looks like the beginning of an interesting story. Liked the pixelart and the movement was pretty cool. The dances at the end were fun to watch. Very nice implementation of filters. Combat wise, I think it has room for a lot of improvement. Also, enemies had too much health, which made the fighting sequences a bit tired. By the looks, perhaps is your inspiration based on Dust: An Elysian Tail? If not, I highly would recommend getting the game and studying it, or watching videos about it. You can learn a lot from it. Best of luck!

I love the art style in it so much, the gameplay was fun, my favorite part was the enemy sprites they were cool to see move around~

The ending is amazing. The story in general is great and got me invested really fast. I agree that the combat is a bit stale, but it's fine because I think the visuals really make up for that. Really really good job :D

I really liked how artistic the cinematic moments were, and the little things like having the real monsters have a greyish color.  Added a lot to the atmosphere and story. Controls felt nice too, solid platforming and had no issue dealing hits in and than dashing away from enemy hits so  great work there!

I absolutely love this! The story you’ve created and told is incredible considering the game lasts around 5 minutes, and I think the ‘cinematography’ of the game is incredible. Every moment of the story was so good, because every word you wrote had a purpose and together they told an incredible story. The final moments, with the shader effects and the pitch-shifted music really had a lot of impact.

I also thought your art was impressive. It must have taken a lot of work to put together all those attack animations, but it paid off. Very polished art for 2 weeks of work.

The only way to improve this game is to add more, something that is obviously very hard within a game jam period. I wish there were more levels, and I wish there was more combat. I will say though that the combat is extremely easy, and I have no idea how health works in this game but I found I was able to stand still through basically all the attacks while spamming my own without any problems. I also wish you used the pixel font throughout to add to the overall game feeling.

Overall, I was really impressed playing this game, and I think with a little more work it could be turned into a full game post-jam, and I’d certainly play it if you did do this :).

I enjoyed the story part of your game

Liked:
- Visuals: Background, Main Character, Combat
- The story you told
- The music was very fitting too

What could be improved:
- Combat: The combat was very bare bones and felt like a chore for me. Attack, dash, attack, dash, attack, dash...
Not a lot of change. I feel you could have gone without it and instead focused even more on the story part and the storytelling
- Visuals: The 3D models which were pixelated looked weird and out of space with the main character not being like that. Either you could have gone full 3D models or sticked to 2D in my opinion.

Cheers <3

Very impressive art and sounds, and more or less the story shows the reality of our society that "monsters are not born, they are made". 

Enjoyed it but maybe in future you will add more gameplay to make the game more fun and make it slightly difficult so that when I finish the game I should have a sense of accomplishment. 

Overall a GREAT GAME!!! and I hope to see more such games in the future. 

Very nice art style and sounds. I really like the mood of the game with these cutscenes and the story. Maybe to improve your game's visuals even more, you could try to have a better consistency between sprites (using the same style for the player and the monsters, keeping a constant pixel size), but it still looks very good right now.

I love the animations! Your work on the ambiance is also great. In particular the moment where you use a distorted sound.

I guess this is your designing choice for an artistic point of you, but for me, you should add health indications. During the first fight, as it is a long one , I was wondering if it wad a bug or if i had to die for the scenario.

Good entry anyway!

This game looks really nice. And you can jump, and dash, and slash a sword. The way the sprites work is really cool. The twist ending got me laughing.

But... here comes my critique:
1. So many cutscenes! I think switching some of them to more enviromental storytelling would make the message stronger. Especially at the end, where something sad happens. I think it would be sadder if we interacted with the thing that was hurt more (I couldn't make out what or who it was, but I think the moment was supposed to be sad. I assumed it was my dog.).

2. Add feature to change the keybinds. Or at least take the dash off the left shift. I couldn't use it too much, because my PC would produce a pop-up if I press left shift too many times in a row.

3. Although the sprites are really cool, the difference in animation style between protagonist and the npc sprites is a bit jarring. It would be a good idea to make them consistent.

4. It would be nice to have more content. I know, I know, this is a game for a game jam. But you have so many different mechanics here, but not much to do with them! I suppose a critique that there is not enough of a game can be treated as a compliment of some sort.

Well put together game, art really shines

I absolutely loved the story in this, wonderful pacing and actually left me wanting more. The combat has a lot of potential but did feel slightly unfinished or perhaps not used to its full potential, would have perhaps liked some ranged projectiles that needed to be dodged by jumping perhaps. Great use of the assets you used/created, reusing the same scene for all elements of the story was enough which I think was a great move to allow for more time to put work into other elements of this game which really shows. Brilliant work!

I really loved that cinematic touch that you give to the game, the combat also feels very good and the animations are incredibly fluid

Things I like:

• 3D pixel art let's gooooo, I'm a sucker for this style!
• Animations were cool, cutscenes were cool, story even better. I can tell the story and cutscenes were the focus of the game and I think you did a great job here. I liked the nice touch on the text animations, the effect on the music at the ending, the words switching, the character's thoughts during the gameplay at the top of the screen, it was really nice.
• Combat animations were also cool, not just the stuff in the cutscenes. The 2 hit sword attacks looked great, nice agility to the hits, cool blade blur, the way that the swords glow also looked really good, overall a nice touch on the game.
• Great mood as well, nice choice of music. I think it fit even the combat, it's not like you're trying to portray violence as cool and exciting in this game, did I get that right?

Things that need improving:

• I didn't understand the need of the platforming and combat mechanics. There was just this one pit you needed the double jump and dash for, nothing else in the game required it. Combat was also weird, I don't know if you could lose, that first fight took so long I just stood there and traded hits, same thing with the second one so I'm not sure both the combat and platforming added anything yet. Perhaps they were just an intro, because there's this "to be continued" in the end? hahaha
• Controls were a bit weird too, there was a noticeable delay between the dash and the shift press, and sometimes it wouldn't even dash. Shift to dash was an odd choice too, given the lack of actions on the right hand which, by the way, there was nothing to point at the screen for, I believe? I would click behind the character and he would attack in front, so I didn't noticed the cursor's role. There was a time I clicked outside on my second monitor and it took the focus outside of the game because of that, luckily I don't think you can die in this game.

The actual gameplay wasn't the best, although I can tell that wasn't the focus. The combat doesn't really have any skill, or is very difficult to actually avoid attacks. Being good at the combat isn't necessary, however, as the focus is the story.

The story was a nice, short, philosophy question and a brief exploration of it. The actually way is was shown was nice and engaging, particularly the way it worked with the audio.

The presentation was amazing, I liked the art style and the artistic choices were nice. I do know some people don't like "pixel art" that is just downrezed 3d models, which is what I believe this to be, but I don't like the aesthetic. Particularly of those that you can fight.

Really great animation and graphics.