I had to watch the playthrough twice because at some points I totally didn't know where to go. The enviroment is gorgeus and the models too but it's kinda hard to see a path, also the walking speed is so painfully slow that sometimes you think you can't go towards specific directions.

I didn't like the games where you are given wrong instruction on purpose during the whole jam. In this game in particular I find it unjustified. It is not an arcade or a game controlled by an AI so why is the game giving me wrong instructions? I mean I can understand the maze with false obstacles but I don't get why is the game speaking.

In the end you know that another female archeologist was trapped in the maze by an alien civilization, and it is the game itself that tells this to you so why was it lying before?

The story is very unclear for this reason. If I had one of these aliens tellin me where to go and what to do I could understand it but like this it is quite a mess.

I think that if it wasn't for the theme of the jam this could have been a game with an interesting story but it came out all twisted because of the lie theme.

As I said the walking speed is extremely slow even if you run. The other controls work good.

I liked the music in the temple, the one on the planet and in the ending is a bit annoying because of the lead synth sound, also I think that the melody could have been expanded a little.

In my opinion this was a pretty immersive adventure but I feel that the theme of the jam was forced into the story, especially in the dialogue parts with the game. The graphics are awesome though.

Good luck for the jam!

It would be great if you'd check out our game too https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/477069

Hi men, I was interested at seeing the thumbnail (and I also downloaded it as a karma reward ;)
So well done with the 3D models and shaders.
Also a good responding player controller, it felt a bit like going up the hill was slower to do than going down, so maybe, instead of adding force, just set the speed so the right amount of force gets add (or maybe keep it the way you havce it because I didn't understand that this was the plan all along ;)

That was a fun entry to explore! You made a pretty large world. First person platforming can get a little awkward at times so I failed at the first jumping section a few times. I also got stuck when you go inside the giant snake head at the point where you jump over the acid, as when I jumped I would just get stuck in the ceiling. A fun entry though, nice work!

The world's geometry is far too complicated for its own good. The main character gets stuck all over the place, collisions are missing in other places, and, because it's so elaborate, it's very difficult to make that many assets look presentable and produce decent player-game interactions. I got as far as the second scene, which is much simpler, yet, it's covered in the same texture on the walls, with half of the surfaces Z-Fighting, a placeholder texture on the ground, and generic dark red "doors" which are walls.

So the first scene was a pain to navigate through, the second one, if you jumped you would get stuck into the ceiling.

In the game's defense, the checkpoint system was decent for me, so failures or manual restarts weren't so bad.

Thing is the game is trying to be cheeky to the point of obnoxiousness, so all of these things I've just described may in fact not be bugs, or incompetence. They may be deliberate. Clever? Possibly. I didn't enjoy the experience at all. All the time I felt like I was fighting with a game that desperately wanted me to stop playing it. It succeeded at scene 2.

The game is far too ambitious for a 7 day project, in my view.

Music was alright, but too loud and didn't really fit the mood of the game (again, could be deliberate).

I conclusion, I think the theme was followed fairly strongly. Too bad that doing this produced a barely playable, unenjoyable game for me.

I really like the idea, I got stuck on one of the levels, I forget which one. The only major thing that bugged me was the music volume but aside from that I enjoyed it! Well done! :D 
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I don't think I've reached the end, there is a huge red wall which does not open with "E", even though the message appears and I had the key. Really liked the large snake head design! Music was trippy

Music is hella loud. General concept seems kinda cool, the sarcasm of "You safely boarded your ship", probably could've used some more visual feedback, cause now it literally felt like a bug / programming mistake. General atmosphere is pretty neat, supported by well chosen assets. Really like the snake theme in combination with lying, pretty smart. As mentioned previously, moving around was awkward, especially when going through very thin parts of the maze, because you never really knew beforehand whether you were gonna fit through or not. For your first game definitely not bad keep it up!  

It's a cool concept but I felt kinda sluggish when moving and looking around. Even when running I was still going at a walking pace.