Very tasty project, I liked everything except that my joystick is not working at the moment, I will definitely come back later to play for my own pleasure because unfortunately it is a little difficult on the keyboard.

I enjoyed this. It does wears its Celeste inspiration in its sleeve, but in a good way.

I however have a couple suggestion for the future.

1- make pressing the confirmation key show the full text, THEN a press with the full text on-screen progresses. I ended up accidentally skipping dialogue many times because of this. Also, a way to skip the story when replaying the level would be nice too.

2- rework your keyboard controls. yes, you advised to use a controller, but even so.
If I may make a suggestion, you set either spacebar or enter to be progressing the text. make it be Jump too. and set grip to Ctrl, Shift or another key that gives most keyboard a space between them and the jump so we can more comfortably switch between them. Dash, I don't have a valid suggestion, sorry.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but every time I clear the first stage, it boots me back to the title screen. 

Visuals and sound are really nice, but I had a hard time at the beginning since I have a 60% keyboard :) Things got better when I connected a gamepad, the movement feels really smooth and so is the transition from keyboard to gamepad, great work in that aspect! But I had some issues with the levels themselves, I feel like the respawn points are a little unfair, putting me way to behind the jump I missed, and sometimes in a different screen. Also at the beginning it wasn’t clear how to choose the next chapter, I kept restarting the tutorial accidentally a couple of times. Good work overall!

The games visuals are pretty good, I like the sound design overall. I had a bit of issue with the pacing of the tutorial where I had to figure out wall jumps before being taught how to do so. I wish there were more levels cause I had fun platforming. Nice game!

PS. I think it would be nice when skipping dialogue the full text appears then if I press skip again the next line of dialouge goes.

Some issues I have:

• It could use better controls for keyboard.  I am curious why we use X,C,V instead of Shift,Z,X or Z,X,C. I feel like these skill heavy platformer games need some key bind settings for the players.
• Some checkpoints were placed poorly that you couldnt see the next jump, making it frustrating to die and respawn. 
• The respawn sound and animation was cool at first until it became a little annoying as I had to keep respawning. 
• I didn't know that you could dash in any movement directions until midway through chapter 1... 
• Is doki's ability to climb on spikes intentional? I did it multiple times before the computer room and it felt kinda strange. 
• Some dialogue skipping were bugged. If you spam to finish dialogue, then it repeats the same dialogue instead of skipping it. 
• I wish the next direction to go to were more obvious. I died multiple times, jumping down and assuming that it would take me to the next area. I gave up after I couldn't find where the server room was.  
• Thanks to the commenter below, I now know that you were supposed to go right after the mint dialogue (i didn't know because the game didn't move me to the next room. Not only that, but I thought it was a dead end.). But in order to retry and just to go to the server room, I have to replay the entire chapter from the beginning without any checkpoints from the previous session. For now I'll pass and maybe try it another time.

Overall great game that could use some polish. Great job!

Nice art and very challenging gameplay!

Really cool that you managed to include voice acting!

I enjoyed the game until I didn't because it became way too hard and with no save/continue checkpoints, unfortunately I won't be coming back to continue my playthrough for a third time. (already had to restart once due to BSOD on my machine)

I read the storyline is supposed to be related to the chain reaction theme but since the game is so difficult, there was no way for me to experience the payoff of the ending.

Some improvement suggestions:

- VA volume is a bit loud compared to Mint and Doki's noises

- Dialogue should have a 2-tap system, where the first button press skips the animation and shows the full text and the second press moves to the next dialogue. I kept accidentally skipping text because I wanted to read faster and pressed a button, as that's how it works in VNs.

- Needs checkpoint saving and a skip dialogue button. During my first playthrough I got to a spot where I wanted to record a video to show you an issue I was having but my computer BSOD'd and I had to restart the whole chapter 1. Painful if you consider the game is hard enough to not want to retry those jumps tens of times again.

- Some camera hotspots don't get properly set after a rewind, turning a regular jump into a blind jump as the target platform goes off-screen.

- Some rewinds placed me in a position that made me fall immediately, instead of placing me back in a safe position. (this is what I wanted to record and got BSOD)

- Too many blind jumps. I've uploaded a recording of my (incomplete) gameplay to YT where I've pointed them out. You can also witness my terrible gaming skills.

Overall, it's a good game that needs some tweaks to be great. Good job, team!

That was quite the challenging platformer, manage to rake up 200 death in chapter 1. However, I find this game quite fun, the sprite looks good, controls are responsive, the music and sfx choice are fitting and addition of VAs are awesome! 

I do feel that the spike hitbox fit too perfectly with the sprite, personally I think it could be a tad bit smaller for some leeway. Some platform placement are a bit 'mean' by being next to the screen change and also close to the pitfall/spike hence when the screen change happens if I held onto the movement for a bit too long I would fall/stabbed to death. 

Still even with my nit picking, this game is wonderful! Interested in the story and look forward to what would happen next!

Such a cool respawn animation! I love how it replays how you died.  The controls are very hard on the keyboard and it feels a bit slippery. I do like the character sprites a lot.

The UI and text animations were really cool and the level design was interesting.  I felt that the controls and movement needed some more polish.  The respawn animation is a neat touch, but made dying feel much more punishing.

And as for progressing the dialogue text, it would be nice to have the input complete the whole sentence instead of moving on to the next one since I still want to read the text.  I notice that you are using the Text Animator plugin, so there's an option to do that right in the inspector!  I hope this helps :>

Overall, nice work!

Cool game, the level design and ambience was pretty well nailed. The art was really cute and interesting and the sound and music design (loved the chapter 1 music) in general was really good. 

I think in terms of the movement, a little more control or friction (specially while in air) might've made the precise movement less harder to maneuver. The levels were definitely way harder than they probably would've been due to this, but with more controlable movement they would probably be already good enough as is. The auto jump also might interfere with some of the platforming: if you have to react fast, a held jump input might just take you back because of it (most noticeable in stair sections like pre-server room). 

A small personal nitpick for chapter 1, felt the spikes hitbox matches way too perfectly the spike sprite which makes some horizontal walljumping sections more annoying to deal with.

While i loved the respawn animation, at some points it respawned me back over some death pits or screen edges, so i had to react (wasn't sure if its just a rewind or a respawn on start spot). This in particular became a problem in chapter 1 where some times i spawn in the edge of a room which triggers the camera for the next room so i find myself wiggling around to see if the camera comes back to the current screen (mostly had this during the bottom section of the map near to the USB drive room and falling into the pre-server room). For some rooms also, failing at the end makes the rewind animation take quite some time to go back to start (or at least feels like) making every retry take extra time.

Had a hard time trying to read the dialogues with the letters appearing effect, felt like most of the times i had to re-read the dialogues to understand, and at some point directly started skipping some trying to get the full phrases. Also felt the voice actor clashed a lot with Mint and Doki voice lines (it was good though since it helped with reading Draken phrases quicker), both in terms of their voice line formats, and in terms of volume (the VA was way louder than the other lines).

The stealth mechanic was quite interestingly balanced, it definitely added some extra spice to the platforming and made rethinking how to navigate the rooms and when.

I'd love to see the project get continued later, got quite hooked and love me some good platformers and fun story.
 

This game was extremely hard, but I persevered and am glad I did, because otherwise the "chain reaction" part wouldn't have made any sense. It seems over half the story, including the part involving chain reaction, is at the very end. I fear with the difficulty most players won't see that, or the cool progression you have for the story. I would like to see more of your story than the gameplay personally.

For controls, the player slides a LOT.  Even the tiniest nudge sends your character sliding like they are on ice. This makes a lot of your precise platforming extremely difficult. But aside from that, being a simple Celeste inspired game was fun, as I love Celeste. Though adding a unique spin on its formula would have been nice to see.

Your art is amazing, and the writing was gripping once I got to see all of it. Well done! If you have more story planned, I would love to experience or read it!

With a bit of adjustment this has a lot of potential!