Played a bit. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2081843266

You already know your game is full of GMI energy. I have only one objective complaint, the key bindings are not localised. It will not always be "keys on bottom left of keyboard" – on non-english layouts the keys start being all over the place. I think all input libraries have some abstraction to fix this easily, e.g. in SDL it’s KeyCode vs. ScanCode.

Subjectively I am not excited for the mix of puzzling+execution, I mean the execution is really not hard, but it sucks having to redo a level from beginning, when I had the right plan, just because I didn’t line up the tongue handling correctly. There were a few situations where fairy hitboxes behaved unexpectedly. But maybe all this is more fun with the proper key layout.

Cheers, and good luck!

As per usual, I had a good time playing! The test levels did a good job of teaching how to manipulate the blue toad. The only thing is that occasionally I had issues executing what I wanted, since it involves juking the blue toad. Though it helped once I realized I could hug him to keep him still while I think. I didn't try the autoaim feature, but I managed fine without it. 

Looking forward to next time.

im gonna keep poking the toads

The characters and world look good, the puzzles gradually increase in diffuculty with the first ones introducing the mechanics and the last ones become challenging enough to be interesting.

This feels and plays almost like a finished game, good job.

10/10 animations and characters, couldn't stop smiling, blue fairy is such a smug piece of shit. The puzzles are great too.

I come here bearing what is hopefully insightful comments about the new levels after risking life and limb in the quest against the dastardly frogs.

I'm just rambling like an idiot. I beat all the levels, it took me about 1 hour and over half of that was spent staring at level 7: Fugitive, but more on that later.

A moving frog opens up a lot of possibilities and I think the first few levels establish what you can do with them reasonably well. Looking back, the most obvious utility for them should be holding down buttons but the most intuitive mechanic for me personally was the fact that you can use frogs to block other frogs which comes in handy later in level 8: Rude. By the way, the animation for when the blue frog gets tongued is hilarious.

The least intuitive mechanic comes into play in level 4: Big Enough, where I admit I was attempting to murder a frog in cold blood by dropping it into the stratosphere. Instead, I learned that toggleable platforms can't be toggled off if a frog is standing on them. Perhaps the idea was that the player would want to kill the frog after losing to many fairies to them which I hope is the case because otherwise it makes me look like a psycho, but I found it generally non intuitive. Platforms that you can toggle on and off are already an abstract concept to begin with so it's weird to pile on even more game logic on top of them in my opinion.

As I mentioned before, the next big roadblock was level 7: Fugitive. What I did was the following: 

1. Throw blue fairy north on top of red button.

2. Walk over north with strong fairy. Place strong fairy on red button.

3. Poke blue frog.

4. Lure blue frog on top of the red blocks with blue fairy.

5. While the blocks are held down because of the frog, walk the strong fairy to the right of the blue frog and stand on top of the blue button.

6. Lure blue frog further south (beyond the red blocks) with blue fairy.

7. Take arrow to the left and complete the level.

I'm not sure if I beat the level as intended because I never touched the platform to the right and it doesn't seem clear at a glance that you should be able to walk past the frog in the center. I guess a frog is around 2 tiles wide and the strong fairy is around 1 tile wide, but still. I don't think I've ever seen red herrings being used so I that's why I'm sharing my solution.

Every other level is pretty straightforward. I can only speak for myself but level 8: Rude could be earlier because, as I hinted at before, feels unusually easy, but that's only my opinion. 

Great work as always.

Hands down the most iconic game in the entire jam. The small details make the game: the way the characters react to each other's presence, the ingenious ways you are prompted to sacrifice some of the fairies and how carefree they look when it happens; it all never failed to bring a smile to my face. This is pretty much iyashikei in game form -- something I wasn't aware I needed until now. Even though there's conflict, the antagonists are just as lovely as the cast of heroines. Needless to say, I can't wait to meet the rest of them.

Playthrough: 1+ hour, Fields/Coast 100% ("Coast: Rise and Shine" had me joggin' the noggin), up to Test-3 (tried to drop the toad on Test-4; couldn't; figured it was time to take a break)

impeccable.

the characters, the cutscenes, the animations, the puzzles, the charm, the humour, even the music is nice and doesn't get tiresome.

Great load screens, nice animations. I look forward to seeing the full release.

The polish in this game just keeps getting better and better. I love just starting levels and watching the animations and countless easter eggs by poking the fairies and such. I think you might have said at one point you intend to carry on with these characters after this game. A 100% asset flip would be completely reasonable.

I could really use a checkpoint/savestate/rewind/undo system of some sort rather than fully restarting every single time. There's definitely an issue with how slow the game feels in general, despite that being helpful for the animation shenanigans.

I don't find the aim assist helps much with anything, though it doesn't hurt either. Maybe get it to highlight whichever fairy is going to be eaten?

this is cheating 

The way these blue frogs occupy space in general is not very well represented. Another instance is when you're supposed to solve a puzzle by using them to block a leaping fairy, which they don't look large enough to be able to, standing at the same height as fairies that don't.

Looks and plays great. Would gladly buy at a 50% discount during a Steam sale.

It is a exciting puzzle game with a unique concept and mechanics and the graphics and style is nice I really enjoyed it.

CCute and soulful game. Keep it up!

Finally played it and enjoyed the puzzles and how stuff was used, besides the cute aesthetic.

Kinda like how the level end flag finishes faster if you did a good job in the level.

Really cute game. The graphics are fantastic. I like how proud of herself the fairy lady looks after finishing the level, it really adds personality to the character. I poked one for far too long and got eaten. Initially I thought it only happened as some sort of Easter egg, but I was wrong, really cool either way. Really nice how you can block its tongue. The fact that there’s a choice between the x^th and x^th-2 level is a nice touch. I really liked how you can sacrifice the buffed fairy in order to win, really thought out game. Also seggs with fairy lady :DD