Hello, I appreciate your input.  The unresponsive jumping is a known bug that is currently being hammered out and should be fixed come next build. It seems that the player sometimes doesn't register it has made contact with the platforms after it has climbed its ledge for whatever reason. 

Something similar can also be said about the level design. The current level design was more meant to give room for the player to be encouraged to use all of the current features relatively early on. The level design will be improved once I've gained access to the more detailed story focused backgrounds this game is meant to center around.

I'm glad you saw potential in it and I hope you give it another chance down the line once it's past its early development phase.

I appreciate it! This is a very early development build of a game I will be adding much more content to. The gauging of distance the player will jump is part of the intended difficulty. This is a foddian style game, after all. However, I have noticed it can be a bit inconsistent when certain factors are applied to the player, mostly involving platforms not registering properly when climbing onto them in a particular way. I believe this may be the bulk of the difficulty at the moment. I will fix this issue and see if the distance gauging is still an unnecessary aspect of the gameplay and keep this in mind moving forward.

I'm happy to hear it! I'm still touching up the visuals, and, when I've added more variety to the background art with lore implements and higher quality details, it will look much better.  But vibe and aesthetic appeal are definitely an important aspect to this game and the series of games I plan to spawn from it.

Music is the next thing on the list actually! I will be implementing a bit of music in the coming days as soon as I've gotten it set up. I appreciate your input!

Yes this game will have many unique synonyms of dark. I hope to stay away from naming everything "Shadow ___" or "Dark ___" as much as possible. So, if you decide to check in every once in a while, you'll be seeing many examples of fancy words that mean dark in some way or another.