I was quite surprised by the concept. This is really cool!

I love the text-adventure style, as well as the bit of satire behind it. In that aspect, the RNG plays very well in the game's humor. However, that randomness can be a bit confusing at the beginning. It took me a while to figure out I had to try to jump several times to succeed. Maybe the text could suggest to the player that if they try again, they could make it?

Anyway, that's a really good entry. Congratulation!

The idea of a metroidvania text adventure is quite a strong fit. Furthermore, the lack of visuals along with the atmospheric music do a great job of helping to build this feeling of exploring the unknown. 

I do have a few small issues and things I think could be improved upon. Most evident is the movement, A,D to go left and right (ok) and U,I to go up and down......what? I'm very curious as to why you didn't make W,S the vertical movement keys as it would have made movement much more natural which would be particularly helpful when I have to backtrack or redo parts that I died to, speaking of....

The fight. The colour puzzle is alright but it carries with it some issues. Firstly, figuring it out, whilst not hard on it's own, becomes a bit of a chore when I get terrible RNG, missing and getting hit multiple times in a row. As such the fight feels quite random.

Secondly, I'm not too familiar with text games but I imagine context puzzles are important, because context can be built upon with writing flair and allows us to pick out key information and draw connections. Here, having it simply be "shoot the pink" doesn't make any sense from  a contextual standpoint. I guess it's closer to blood? Perhaps more flair would help, something like "it's head was pulsating pink at the rate of a heart beat, covered in veins" would suggest that it's more vulnerable without being a complete giveaway (assuming the other colours had more description, perhaps consider texture as well which I think tells us more than colour. An alternate and possibly better approach could be to establish pink as a vulnerable colour. Perhaps you did this an I just missed it, but having something that's pink be shown as harmless and vulnerable could work if you draw attention to the pink-ness, or how about having those weak easy to shoot creatures "explode, plastering the walls with a eerie glowing pink" to establish that pink represents the blood of this planet.

My final nitpick is that nothing really comes across as me solving it when the game tells me the solution. I think "perhaps I can use bombs on the cracked surface" only to have the game say "HEY YOU CAN USE BOMBS ON THE CRACKED SURFACE!". In a text adventure where I can say "use x on y" it opens up a lot more freedom, and whilst I wouldn't quite expect that here, a little more freedom would have helped. Rather than letting me use bombs only when applicable, let me waste bombs as anytime, that way I have to actually consider when to use them. 

This might be too complicated or not really fit, but perhaps if you don't want too much typing you could have certain key words or phrases (cracked wall, monster, ect) be highlighted in text. Then, when you use a bomb, you click the entity you want to use it on. I can see why this might have been too much work for the jam but it would add a lot of depth.

Rant aside, I do like the game for it's innovation in blending two compatible genres whilst building an atmosphere and it would be cool to see it improved upon. 

I am completely in love with this game! The beginnings of Metroidvania exploration, great tone-setting music, mysterious atmosphere...

I feel a little weird about RNG being involved with combat/exploration, but if  you can find secrets/upgrades that improve your accuracy/dexterity that would put my concerns there to rest. The way you made interesting combat in a text based game was also very impressive.

One criticism I might have is that having all of your current options for exploration explicitly described to you mitigates some of the satisfaction of figuring out what situations you can use certain items. For example, when you get bombs, the game just tells you where you can use them, and you can't use them in any other situations. I think it might be more interesting to simply give the player the option to use bombs in any room they like, and not tell them that they can destroy cracked surfaces (Perhaps you could just have a button to use any item you select from your inventory?) That way the player has to put two and two together themselves, and you don't sacrifice the essence of discovery when you find new items that's pretty essential to the Metroidvania experience imo. (Also this would let you put secrets in your map, since right now you have to tell the player everything they can do)

Anyway, great game, great execution! I would LOVE to see this developed into a full experience! 5/5

I like this idea, but I'm really struggling with the pixel style font in what's essentially a text adventure.

I love this idea. It's a Metroidvania without real-time movement mechanics! That's a hilarious idea, and it was implemented very well. The music, the sound effects, the detailed descriptions, and the logical flow of uncovering an unknown planet all capture the feeling of a Metroidvania very well. This is definitely one of my favorite entries in this game jam, and I encourage you to continue working on it! It's innovative, clever, and it I think you can just continue to add content and polish until you have a really funny and interesting game.

Keep up the great work! Rated 5/5