Glad you enjoyed it! 

We couldn't find a good balance for the i-frames, and ended up deciding to make it better for the player rather than leaving it too useless, so yeah, it is really strong. We'll try to balance it better.

The double jump is actually mentioned in the tutorial, but it's easy to miss. I think the coach goes "Remember you can double jump" or something like that, but there is not a panel like with the other controls, we'll work more in the tutorial, thanks for the feedback!

Glad you liked it! Thanks for playing!

Gals you enjoyed it! The idea behind the lives was for people to try different modules if they got a Game Over, but we understand how it could lead to some frustration. Thanks for the feedback and thanks for playing!

Beating the game without the double jump is actually kind of impressive, nice!

Yeah, the bosses have a bit of a learning curve, but once you learn them, they keep doing the same over and over. We hoped people would leanr and beat them. And if they happened to game over, that they'd try again with different modules.

Glad you liked the game, thanks for playing!

Thanks! You can go ahead an criticize them, we know the keyboard controls are not the best. We should've added an option to customize the controls so everyone could enjoy the game their preferred way ^^"

Really glad you liked it!

Thanks! All the art was made by my partner Frostyburguer! Glad to hear about the controls, we worried a ton about that.

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Sorry about the controls, we should've added an option to customize the controls, because the people who tested it had different preferences for the controls. And yeah, we tried to have the third boss feel like THE Final Boss, he had to be harder, but we may have overdone it, we had too much practice with the game ^^"

And the tutorial is long because there was a lot that needed explaining, stuff like how the shoot can be held but the melee has to be mashed, or that the jump height is actually variable. If we had time, we would've prefered to make a sort of gameplay tutorial, with a practice boss probably.

Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for playing our game!

Hard mode complete :)

Thanks for the feedback! And congratulations on beating the hard mode, we tried to make it really challenging.

And you're absolutely right, the hurt-boxes are pretty rough for some stuff, the last boss should have the better ones, since he has the most complex animations, I tweaked his hurt-box a lot in the different animations, even then, sometimes it is a bit too punishing, like when he is standing in the middle summoning the crystals.

The 2nd boss bubble thing was actually something we weren't so sure of. We liked the idea, but had to really think about how to implement it. In the end we made the coach give you a hint about how the only safe place is inside the shield, and hoped people would figure it out, probably too optimistic on our part ^^"

And yeah, the ground hitbox does linger a bit too much, I did that with a Godot AnimationPlayer, but it didn't quite work as expected, for some reason the hurtbox took longer to disappear than the time I was putting in the animation. I wanted to change it and do it with my own code but never got around to doing it. And the crystals definitely could use some telegraphing, but in the end left them like that as a sort of a "This is the last boss, get good lol". And while the crystals are annoying to dodge, they "only" deal 1 damage, as opposed to most stuff dealing 2, and you can deal a lot of damage to the boss while he is summoning them, so it felt balanced in a way. 

Again, thanks for the feedback, I'm really glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for playing!

Yep, that final attack pattern is the hardest thing to dodge, you really need to get the timing right to jump from the center of the room to one side. Really glad you liked it, thanks for playing our game!

Glad you liked it! Adding the sounds to pretty much everything we could think of so the game had feedback was one of the most time consuming things we did, because we don't have anyone for sound, so it was a lot of hours spent listening to free audio effects, we're really glad it's paying off. 

Actually beating the game without double jump should be possible, although the first boss was designed around the double jump, since he goes pretty high on the wall. On our first demo of the game, the double jump was actually your special module, so we designed the 2nd and 3rd bosses around the possibilty of you not having double jump. However, our friends who tried it said losing the double jump felt really bad, so we made it baseline and added the repair module as a replacement.

Thanks for playing to the end, we're really happy you enjoyed the game!

The tutorial tells you about the double jump, but it's easy to miss it, I expected most people to not read it at all haha.

Yeah, the third boss can be brute forced quite a bit with that setup, we realized it after the first one of our friends who finished the game beat it like that. We didn't have that much time to balance it towards the end, so we left it like that, we expected most people wouldn't realize, and if they did, kudos to them. We didn't want to make it too hard for those who didn't use that setup and saw how to cheese it. You can also kill it really fast with dash + triple shot!

And yes, you can jump (or dash if you took that) behind the second boss and attack him a lot. We could have solved it easely by putting the boss closer to the wall so his hitbox would hit you, but decided to leave it like that since that boss can be pretty hard. And it only works really well on every first set of saws, after that, there are usually a couple saws flying around that can hit you when you go behind him, specially in hard mode, where the saws are faster and last longer.

Thanks for playing it to the end, we appreciate the feedback a lot because we hope to improve and expand the game after the Jam.

Yeah, we decided to keep the modules simple for the jam, we really wanted to do some more interesting stuff with them (We had a sword to return projectiles, but it was somewhat buggy, a bit hard to balance, and time was limited) but in the end we decided to focus on other things, like the bosses, all the UI, etc. 

About the jump, yeah, the short jump is not that useful from the ground most of the time, however, we felt it was useful for when you needed a small redirection while in the air (Also, maybe our love for short jumps comes from a looot of hours playing Smash Bros haha). I personally felt like I used it a lot in the 2nd boss to dodge the blades coming for me while I was already in the air.

We'll experiment with it after the Jam, since we hope to further develop the modules and add more bosses with more interesting modules, thanks for the feedback! Glad you liked the game!

We drew a lot of inspiration from Mega Man and Hollow Knight, so we're glad it made you think of Mega Man. Sorry about the controls, we could've added mouse controls as well. But usually we only add mouse controls to our projects when you use the cursor for stuff like aiming. We had people test it, some found the controls fine, some didn't like them, so we probably should've added a "Controls" menu, so everyone could enjoy the game the way they wanted. We'll most likely implement that after the jam is over, thanks for playing!

Thanks! Making the movement feel good was one of the first things we heavily focused on, we tested a lot until it felt right! We've always liked games where the movement feels nice because that's how you interact with the rest of the game and it can change your experience a lot.

Thanks a lot! We had a hard time balancing the difficulty because we had so much practice with the game. The 2nd boss is actually something we couldn't quite agree on, since I had an easier time with him, while my partner Frostyburguer found him harder than the last boss. Still, we tried to keep it balanced as much as we could, but with the shield phase it was a bit hard to balance since you could deal a ton of damage there. We really hope we can continue developing this, with more/better bosses, and making the abilities you can exchange more interesting, we kept the abilities rather simple to focus on the rest of the game for the jam. Thank you again, and we're really glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Thank you so much! All the art was made by my partner Frostyburguer, it really is great. I'm glad you enjoyed the difficulty, we had a hard time balancing it and were afraid it could be too hard. Glad you enjoyed it!