I love the weakpoint mechanic, it's something obvious but the fact you made it work with monochrome deserves a shout out.

I'm not going to bother with the gravity puzzle though.

I liked your demo. I ran into 3 bugs from what I've noticed. My first involved the boss: I died to him, and when I back to him, this happened : 

The attacking part of the boss separated from the boss' body; I was still able to attack its body and kill it.

The second bug I encountered when taking the elevator back up; when it transitioned to the next level I was presented with just the elevator shaft, and I couldn't see my guy, but I could hear my guy moving around. I was soft-locked at that point. This happened several times until it didn't, and I could see my guy on the elevator going up to the next level like normal.

My last bug was when I returned to the beginning of the game after getting the double jump and gravity gun; I saved/healed at the first save spot and my game immediately crashed. When I went back into the game, I was at that save point like nothing was wrong.

I hope this helps. Good luck with your game!

That was a pretty fun time, my dude. I like the bigger emphasis on dialogue. Your typical Metroid-like is a very cold, lonely affair, which has a time and place but sometimes I play games not to be reminded of the average day to day. 

And the emphasis on precision 360 shots is a pretty nice mechanical twist. Fun time all around.  Good luck in this cold, lonely world.

This was my favorite game in a lot of areas this demo day. Your level design is good! You should be proud of what you've put together here.
I agree with whoever mentioned the game has ESA vibes: it very much does. And that is a great thing.

I don't know if anyone else mentioned this but you mixing the retro sfx with the more grounded foley like the cave ambience works surprisingly well, and grants a lot of life to the station that wouldn't otherwise be there, audio will be your friend on this project for making the world feel alive since you're sticking to monochrome graphics.

I didn't find it immediately clear that the big gateway things are save points. That might just be me being stupid, but a lil text pop up when you interact with one would go a long way to making that more obvious for oblivious folks like me :)

Your first boss is good! I would maybe force him to use his moves in alternation, because on my first attempt due to some wild rng I didn't even know he had more than one move. 

Overall the whole thing was a joy to play, and I love the main weapon. Your gravity gun is a lot of fun too. Hitting a lot of very base satisfaction receptors with this.

I don't have so much to add that hasn't already been said, but I will reiterate that this game feels very good to play, it kept me playing for quite a while. I'm a bit burnt out of the slew of metroidvanias released in the last 10 or so years, but I'd definitely give this game a shot on release simply for the aforementioned feel (and juice) and atmosphere.

Keep it up bro.

The stars dropping from enemies could do with a bit bigger pickup range i think.

At one point the sound bugged out and it was playing the shooting noise on repeat - I think it happened when i got hit at the same time as holding down the attack button https://files.catbox.moe/rw08r0.webm (video is from after it happened though)

very nice style, think some atmospheric bgm could be nice too

Fun game. Wasnt sure I would like it first going in, especially since im not to big on platformers. But this was fun. Got to the ending of the demo and will be waiting to see more of this game!

I played it on linux and I dont think I ran into any issues that would be OS related.

It feels like you move faster when going down a slop than when you move normally or go up a slope. Felt a bit odd.

I found a glitch, where if I opened a door while a slug was crawling up it, the slug would fly over to the next wall. Just guessing here, but seems like you have the gravity that affects to slug rotated when it climbs onto a wall or roof? I think resting the gravtiy to be downwards if the slug has no gravity based collision would fix the issue. Or just keep it cause it looks funny and not too out of style for a creepy space slug.

The ability to look up or down while standing still would be nice.

Maybe its just cause im a noob, but the flying bugs almost filtered me.  It be nice if they died once they hit you. shooting at them gets weird when they are stuck hovering over the plater body. The shooting works fine, its just at least in my head feels weird to point at yourself to shoot them.

Thanks for the fun demo and good luck on the game!

The gameplay and the combat is good. The game did lock itself to the top left side of my screen. No idea why or how to turn it off. The turret and the flying enemies are easy to kill/avoid. I wanted to play more, but I got stuck in the upgrade room, unable to leave (or see how to leave with the game locking itself in the corner) No idea if the bug is causing only a party of the game to be shown, but this is what I can see during gameplay.

- too much text up front, if the player goal is not in the first two sentences, I'm skipping all text until I'm invested in the game, which I'm not on start
- if arrows aren't used for anything in game, support both them and wasd, even if you prefer one of them
- solid sound effects and artstyle is nice
- pressing down for prompts is odd, isn't it usually up?
- no idea what the "40" means when you kill something, since the counter counts the stars you collect
- expected alt+enter for fullscreen

Got to the double jump, got disappointed it's the most generic possible method of progression, boss made it better, but I quit the game after being respawned all the way at the start for losing. The game is solid and well made, potentially even immersive, but sparks little to no excitement, which could be due to how little of it I cleared.

it's really cool, it feels like a lot of effort has been put into this. I get the feeling of the spaceship being huge. I like the small details like the small window/opening on the right in the beginning of the game which I can shoot trough for no reason. I like the story aspect, though I felt like it's a little much text in the intro. I like that you get money from killing monsters, it gives an incentive to kill them. The laser and overall effects are cool and not too much in my face which is something I really appreciate. The sound is top notch.

One weird thing, when I get the double jump and die from the miniboss, I just keep the double jump, there's no penalty for not defeating him?

I just started and I'm spawning a turret gun on top of myself everytime I collect a star bit or whatever these collectibles are. I've died once. This definitely looks like a bug.

I love your laser. It feels... It feels so right. I'll edit this comment as I continue but that bug is pretty wack so I wanted to get that out there quickly.

This game reminds me a lot of Environmental Station Alpha, which is entirely a good thing. The graphics are nice, the playing field is easily visible and defined despite the limited palette, and the game plays well. I particularly like how as far as powerups go, you got the double jump first.
I'm a big fan of the Observer boss. Really fun and intuitive. Despite it being a bit challenging, I was able to beat it on my first try since it was a natural evolution of the mechanics I had just learned. I love it when games do that. My only complaint I have from my time playing is that the flies in the second area can be a bit much at first since they're small yet come in such big numbers. I'd either make their hurtbox just a bit larger, or maybe decrease their numbers slightly. Great work!

Luna:

First off, space is a fine jump button, but I would want it on ‘w’ also if I had my druthers, as ‘w’ seems unmapped, maybe it comes up later. 

<span class="s1" <the="" console="" is="" logging="" some="" errors="" when="" i="" kill="" enemies="" (error:="" resumed="" function="" ‘blink()’="" after="" yield,="" but="" the="" instance="" gone.="" at="" script:="" <="" span="">res://entities/player/damage_number.gd:36</span> at: modules/gdscript/gdscript_function.cpp:1873) Cute little door opening animation.

The console is logging some errors when I save? (Error file must be opened before use. at core/bind/core_bind.cpp:2053)

Going back through a door gave “Signal ‘area_entered’ is already connected to a given method ‘_on_door_enter’ in that object” love the leg movement, really cute little jiggle back and forth. 

I’m getting killed over and over by the observer. Would be a bit easier with ‘w’ jump. 

Good writing in the computers, clear and concise but builds the world. 

Very nice use of jump scaling with the upgrade in the observer room, backtracking the small area I already came through has good rewards and feels nicer with a higher jump.

Nice environmental storytelling with the dead worker under the surveillance/laser defense system. I like how the first one is easy to pass and teaches you the mechanic. 

The hotboxes on the collectable scrap could be a little more forgiving, or last a bit longer before disappearing.

Also, on the basis of hitboxes, you may want to increase the granularity of the recast used for the player weapon (if I understand what is happening) as enemies seem to occasionally evade direct hits. 

WOO I beat the observer, had to get 9 max health before, and I won with one left, so that’s tight design. 

Ripley can’t stand those damn scientist’ slight grammar nitpick, scientist should be scientists. 

There should be a save point at ripley, I died to the bees and got sent back a long distance. (scratch that, consider this one praise of good design, there is a save block right where it should be in this area.)

Kinda cool and ironic, you need Dr. Mandragora’s card to learn about the enemies you will fight, but you fight them first. 

I've got to find Pomao, (thanks for putting him in the game)