This is a really well-made game overall. I would point out three things;

1. Grappling and hitting those electric grapple guys are hard enough without them also being electrified every five seconds. The electric platforms were *mostly* okay, but every other grapple room felt trolly.

2. In one of the already-more-frustrating rooms with a grapple-those-guys mechanic you can softlock after completing the room (respawning or leaving and re-entering the room doesn't spawn any mercy platform or respawn the enemies.)

3. This is a mechanically solid game and it's good to have to think about placement and even the directionality of an attack; it's very engaging overall, and kudos for that.

I'd love to play more of this if you're planning on a post-jam release.

Well, I was pretty blown away by this game, and it's my favorite of the competition by far! After I started, I had to play it all the way through, and pulled off a victory! It certainly wasn't easy. I do have some feedback/criticisms though, so I'll mention them here.

First, what other people mentioned - it's a bit annoying to restart and die immediately because you're holding a direction. I like the fast restart & it makes it less of a problem, so I'm not sure I would get rid of that. To some extent you should be able to fix the problem with level design. Start the character off in an area with short ledges on the side so they can't run off immediately. 

I also had trouble with one electric floor room. The one where the different platforms are very out of sync was a bit too hard to adjust to. Most games let the player find a rhythm with mechanics like that, but this room couldn't really work that way.

It is very difficult and I would like to see a smoother difficulty curve, at least if the game becomes longer. There wasn't really a problem that made it hard, just the kind of difficulty I would expect in a hard precision platformer. By the way, is this inspired at all by Dispersio? It reminded me of it a lot.

There were quite a few things I really liked. First of all the controller support and fully featured start menu, that was great. Second was the amount of content. I couldn't believe how long the game was compared to others in the contest! I'm shocked you came up with that many rooms within a month.  The graphics were very good and the main song was very catchy. I really like how the enemies follow a color scheme, it made them stand out easily. I also like how the enemy attacks were telegraphed.  The first few times I died when grappling an electric enemy, I didn't understand why I died, but it became obvious because of the electric animation and the electric border on the player's corpse, so that was well done. I also really like that when you enter a room from below, you can't fall back down to the previous room. It was also nice to see the extra platforms to help you up if you reenter a room you've beaten.

One issue for me, it would be really nice to disable screen shake since I get motion sickness very easily. It wasn't as bad in this game as it is in others, but there are games I had to skip playing because of screen shake. It's also one of the easiest things to make optional. You probably have a function that basically says "shake the screen", so just wrap the whole function with "if screen shake is enabled" and put an option in the start menu to disable it.

Anyways, it was a really fun game and I didn't expect to see anything so professional and well designed in the competition. Great work!

I liked the hit to jump mechanic.  I got stuck in a couple places because I couldn't get it to strike in the direction I wanted, but the quick "try again" cycle kept me hooked to try over again more times than I care to admit.

I also liked how the level design and enemy placement became a puzzle to solve to get past an area.

The yellow platforms were a bit frustrating and respawning after a death sometimes lead to another death because I was still holding forward when I died and ran right off the platform when I respawned.  Maybe some sort of short break either when you die or after a respawn so it can register in your mind that you died?

Good job!  Very engaging...

This game is really fun! I think that the hit to double-jump mechanic you put in and designed around is quite fun and challenging too! Very fun gameplay and controls as well, and game pad compatible! I like the hook as well but I got stuck not too far after I got it. Should have taken a screenshot but it is a screen where you come up from the bottom and there are 3 circle enemies at the top, each with one of the rocks/spikes that can kill you underneath them. I could not figure out how to get past this part! Very fun though, kudos!

Awesome concept with the jump/attack chaining, etc. Really well thought out and executed!

I did find that the platforms that turn yellow and hurt you were frustrating to predict - I wished they would change to a warning color for a second before they become lethal so that you could read the room better.