Rock solid platform movement, awesome cutscene, great art and animations, innovative mechanics and you even managed to add a freaking leaderboard?! Super impressive! As others pointed out, the main aspect of the game that needs attention is the difficulty spike.  The core mechanic translates to a less “natural” platformer movement control, so it takes a while for the player to internalize the physics. Polishing the collisions would also make the experience more fluid (the game would greatly benefit from a more forgiving “coyote jump”) — which is very important as this is clearly designed to be a speedrunner playground. Great job!

Marvelous game! I don't play much platformer games, but this is quite nice. Unfortunately I am very bad, and I struggled to reach the dragonfly every time so in the end I gave up!

It feels like a polished game, the intro is nice and bring you to the action straight away while you think you are still watching it. Nice!

Also, nice twist of the theme with the play of the words ;-)

Well done!

This game looks amazing! I especially love the cutscene—it really add to the experience. The controls feel great, and I had a lot of fun with the gliding and the turning into a statue mechanic, especially when you can bounce off things. It’s a clever and enjoyable feature!

However, I’m currently stuck on the dragonfly. I initially thought I could simply glide to it and jump but it seems out of reach a lot of the time when i try. After some trial and error, I figured out that turning into a statue on top of it could help me use it as a platform, but it took me a while to realize that. I had to go back and redo parts, which was a bit frustrating.

It might help if the dragonfly was introduced earlier in the game, without the lava, so players could get used to the idea of interacting with it as a platform. Overall, though, the game is designed really well, and I just wish I was better at it! Keep up the great work!

Great entry! Plays nicely and everything comes together really well. I agree with my buddy Ressurected Studio that the game becomes difficult fast. I must shamefully admit that I ragequit early on, because I couldn't get further than the third screen with the 2 floating lavaballs on the right. I'm bad at skill-based games. Another tip I want to give you as a designer/artist is: you can tell the art is mixed together. The title screen looks impressive and grim, but it doesn't fit the colorful gameplay graphics. Maybe next time you could bring the two closer together by applying a color filter to the assets to make it fit your game world. A bit less saturation and color filters on the gameplay graphics would have made it more fitting. But that's my opinion. 

Congrats on finishing the entry though. Always an achievement to finish a game jam!

This game looks amazing, especially the intro—I totally didn’t expect to play as a gargoyle bat right off the bat! I have to admit, I’m missing the “hard choice” theme, but other than that, it’s a fantastic experience. One tip: consider making it a bit easier early on so jam players can feel successful sooner—it felt like a bit of a grind to get better. Then again, maybe my gaming skills are just lacking!

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Absolute fun. Intro was amazing. Graphics and audio are well done . I just had to do Prangles dirty and swap to other pc with normal keyboard to set a record. 10/10 Sorry mate :) Splash screen should be more like in-game graphics.

Not gonna lie, kind of blown away by that opening cut scene - so impressive.  Very interesting secondary mechanic "statue" mode.  I was not very good at this game, but still really enjoyed trying it.  Great visuals and audio.

An interesting game, the visuals and sound are excellent, but it seems to me that the game does not quite correspond to the theme)

you killed it with this one, and oh bot the cutscene is just superb! GG!

I grinded so long and hard for first place, 7/10 game