This is really ambitious - I love the theme/gameplay, and it's really fun to play (although I haven't beat it yet, I am stuck after the 3rd checkpoint! I'm determined to beat it though). Supporting dual-analog stick controls would be amazing. The music is really cool, but adding sound effects would go a long way.

Is that a giant turtle? Because if so this is the third game this jam with one lol

It is very beautiful! Good Job! The game has some potential but it needs a lot of polish especially the player character who slides quite a lot I think.

I really liked it! I liked the idea of climbing that barely stable turtle, music and graphics was nice, overall cool.

I feel like the floor sliding was a little too unforgiving and the camera movement was disorienting a bit.

Additionally I would not call that dash, as it is simply sprint and then jumping with higher speed.

I had fun playing this and enjoyed the feel of the platforming. Only complaint would be the mouse sensitivity was extremely high for me. not sure if this is because I'm on a 144hz display or if that's the movement speed everyone experienced but the slightest movement would spin the camera so fast.

It took me a while to beat it, and it was quite the journey. I love the concept of getting to the top of this large turtle creature thing, and the freedom to view the creature in its full glory at any time is a fun touch, and I also enjoy the micro-scenery changing from the creature's body, to the shell hills, and finally the white tower thing.

 Also it took me a while to figure out how the dashing works, and it feels a bit, ahem, unstable to use in that once you hold it and then jump, it is really hard to control your momentum even when you let go of it. The checkpoint system could be improved by making it more lenient (like maybe giving you the checkpoint as soon as you land on the platform), since on a few occasions I would land on the platform but fall off due to having too much momentum from the  dash.

Lovely game, great concept, good job!

Awesome awesome game! I had a really good time playing this. The sense of scale you were able to create felt amazing. I was impressed by the number of additional mechanics you added like climbing vines and the launch pads. The character controller was a little slippery, but I felt like the difficulty was in the perfect spot for me. It was so rewarding to get to those flags!! Only issue I had was that I had to restart a few times due to flying away when trying to climb the vines at the beginning on the leg.

I did it, whoo! :/) Actually, the beginning here is more complicated than the rest. Jumping blindly isn't much fun. At first I didn't use dash at all, but then I got the hang of it. It's a pity that there is nothing special at the end, but getting through this without closing the game was a small victory over yourself :)

I'm in the same boat as some other people, I didn't get to see enough of the content because I couldn't make jumps and got stuck in some parts of the model. I think you guys created a really good atmosphere, and just the controls need improving for some players like me. Also, maybe release a playthrough video so I/we can see the rest of the content! :)

After 10 tries, I still couldn't reliably get to the second platform. I realized that the camera angle was affecting my forward velocity, and tried to take advantage of that, but then I couldn't see where I was jumping. So I started losing patience. I made it as far as the 3rd platform a couple of times, but always slid off before I could grab the ladder/vines.

Sorry I couldn't see the rest of your content. From the comments, it sounds pretty cool.

That was such a long trip. There was moments of frustration for sure but the feeling of wanting to know more, what's on top, was greater :) good job

 Welp, you already have received tons of quality feedback, but here's my two cents haha

 The feeling of progress that you get when climbing the turtle is reaaaaaly good. You get higher and higher, the difficulty climbs up as well, the stakes get bigger... really nailed the feeling.  This and the curiosity to know what's on top of the game kept me playing for longer than I expected, despite the simple gameplay.

 The controls were a bit too floaty and the camera too fast, but I guess that adds to the challenge. Maybe adding some ingame control indicators would also help players understand that you can run to jump farther in some places (I had some trouble understanding tha shift runs, instead of dashing you in the air, just like in Celeste haha)

 Anyway... really good game people 👍

This is a great concept but a little rough around the edges. The design and ambition here is high. The graphics and music work well. Unfortunately there are a few negatives: The camera control (a few other reviews have mentioned this). The jumping is basic and could do with double jump and a bit of leeway for the player to make mistakes with timing. But the worst bit for me was the glitching - I got stuck jumping, falling and climbing on the model in various ways and couldn't find a way to reset without quitting the game and restarting.

This is a shame because I ran out of patience and never made it to the top of the climb and I still want to see what's up there!

Very cool game, nice job! I think the game would benefit a lot from increasing the height of the respawn plane with successfully reached checkpoints. Otherwise you always end up hitting scene geometry on the way down and have to manually jump off to get back to where you were before.
One time I even hit a checkpoint right at the start when that happened, so basically all of my progress was reset.

Also I climbed the vine at the start and kept pressing W, the game applied a constant force pushing me upwards so I was able to skip a decent chunk of the starting area. Maybe add an area around the vine, once you exit that you stop the character moving upwards...

As a big Shadow of the Colossus fan i have to say: great game! Really nice character design as well. As others have mentioned already...it's a bit tricky to get enough speed to reach some platforms when your camera is not aligned properly. 

Not a big deal though. Great entry! 

The game looks stunning! Main only problem was the unstable (very original pun) speed relative to the camera, got stuck at a few jumps until I fond that I needed to change the angle sometimes.

But again, loved the visuals, congratulations!

The game is beautiful, it must not have been easy to make in such little time ! The two music tracks are very good and fit the climb of a giant turtle (adamantoise ?).

I only had two issues while playing ; first, the speed seems to depend on the camera's position, which means your jumps differ depending of the angle of the camera, but I suppose it is just a little hic in the code. The second one is that the fallzone that brings you back to the last checkpoint isn't readjusted at the height of the latter ; which means when you fall from, let's say the third area, you can fall on a platform from the first, it slows the pace of the game because you have to jump by yourself in the void to tp to the checkpoint and if you're really unlucky (as I was) you can fall... directly on a previous checkpoint, activating it ! I wonder if you were gonna implement checkpoints at first, considering the name of the game ? It would have made a rage game.

Anyway, those aren't big issues. To The Beginning is impressive and is a great submission. Congrats for your submission !