Fun arcadey game with nice art and music.

• intro instructions are nice, but should be skippable (unless they were and I just didn't notice)
• For the movement queue, it seemed like horizontal movement had precedence over vertical (tapping 'W' while 'A' is held will make the player continue to move left whereas tapping 'A' while 'W' is held makes the player move left once and then continue moving up which is probably the desired result) I think it would be better if priority were always given to the  input that was pressed down most recently when multiple buttons are held
•  The way pickups sway back and forth makes their hitboxes pretty variable. not sure if this is intentional. Also, should an anchor be able to spawn on top of a pearl?
• I think it would be nice to have some sort of visual distinction between pearls on the ground and ones you've just picked up (like a trail as they move towards the score ui)

good game. I enjoyed.

I like the idea of this game! Seems to be pretty cool. However the game was running really really slow on my machine, almost unplayable. It was probably something on my end (I'm on linux using wine). But the music was nice and I think this would be pretty fun if I could play it at the proper speed

Gave the demo a try! 

Some observations:

- The game doesn't seem to use the mouse. Maybe hide the mouse cursor while the window is active.

- It would be nice if the game showed the How to play / controls screen/esc menu on your first run

- Some of the obstacles seem much larger than they visually appear. Darkening the tiles beneath obstacles so that it's clear what's walkable and what isn't might help the player better judge distance.

- Font on score screen is really hard to read

- Jellyfish can spawn on the player

- Anchor making the player slower until they pick up sushi feels kinda' rough, maybe time limit on that

- It is very unclear at first whether or not the shrimp gun has X shots or X time. Maybe add countdown

- Unclear if any of the enemies do anything differently

- Auto pause on window focus lost would be cool

- Can only punch 1 jellyfish at a time even if they are stacked

- Sparkling pearl quits flashing after one animation cycle. Not sure if intended

- It'd be cool if pearls that were obscured by powerups could be shown as transparent silhouettes above the powerup

- Fish enemies can walk offscreen using the bridge

- Extra life at 1,000,000 points would be neat

- Warp tunnel idea is cool

- Not sure how to exit the game

Ended up with a high score of 1276350

I really dig the artstyle - it's cute, charming and easy to read. The music is A+, relaxing, interesting enough to grab my attention, yet not distracting despite that.  Took me a few seconds to realize you could hold down the WASD keys to control your movement direction as opposed to tapping them, but from there it was smooth sailing (pun intended.) The visual distinction between the speed powerups/powerdowns is great and made it immediately clear to me that one of them should be avoided, although I walked into one of the powerdowns anyway to see what would happen.

The only real critical feedback I can give is that it took me a little bit to figure out how to start the game from the initial high score screen. 

The music and pickup sfx really goes together. Once I got the hang of it, it played pretty smoothly too. It might be unfeasible, but I think it could use some kind of action queue. The windows to move/turn are a bit tight, and if you press it a bit too early, you just keep going straight. I just end up holding a direction key constantly. Though if that's intended gameplay, then ignore what I said. Also I thought it was mildly amusing that enemies can leave on the raft thing.

Really fun demo. It's pacman but with more enemy variety which is really interesting. The player is very fast. The slow down items can help gain more control at the cost of slowing down which is a nice trade off. The transitions to new levels are really nice with the graphics fitting the game. The music also fits perfectly with the animations in between levels. The only thing I can really say is to put the name and controls on the main scene before you start the game, but other than that this is extremely solid. If you do update the game, add more enemies, they are pretty fun to fight against. Here is my current high score. I'll have to play a bit more.