Fun entry! i like the art and the history, i can't collect the key maybe because a collider but overall good entry, nice work!

I'm just going to come out and say that this game is a marked improvement over Partial Vania, so great job there! The game had a lot of personality (even if the voice was text-to-speech, the script still oozed personality). The progression through the game felt quite well thought out with subsequent rooms being more difficult than previous rooms, and the jet pack power-up was a joy to use. I also appreciated that the janitor could just move freely about the building without any problems.

For some feedback,

1. It's a bit weird that my head / upper body goes through the floors above me. It's not super annoying or anything, but it does make things feel a bit unpolished.

2. The gas does too much damage and its hit box lingers for far too long. I eventually just started jumping over it (using the aforementioned body-through-floor shenanigans), but I felt like I would have gotten annoyed with the wait times had I not been able to do that. In terms of hazards, the spikes which rose out of the floor were also a bit on the small side., so I wasn't really sure if there were times when they were supposed to be safe to stand on or not.

3. I was a bit unclear if I was dealing damage to the final boss or not. Previously I had gotten feedback on every water gun hit because they were one hit kills, so when I didn't hear any sounds on hitting the boss I wasn't sure if my lasers were getting through or not. In an ideal world, there would probably be an impact sound for the boss and a ricochet or metallic sound for shooting one of the orbs. As for the orbs, they were probably too random for a proper boss fight, as is I just kind of hovered on the left side of the screen where they didn't seem to be able to hit me. I think fewer orbs or a slower movement pattern would have helped a lot with making feel like I could use skill to defeat this boss.

Overall though, I'd say this is one of the more coherent games I've played so far this jam, there was a narrative thru-line throughout the game, the character had personality, and all of the power-ups were well messaged and telegraphed. Good job!

That story was quite a wild ride haha XD

The premise was super interesting but i like how it got more of a humorous spin thanks to some of the wacky stuff you come across the lab and i did not expect the text to speech voice but it was quite nice to have everything be explained via quick dialogue bits rather than walls of text, so that's also a plus game design wise ^^

I had a few issues here and there, the controls mapping is a bit odd with having jump on the up direction rather than a dedicated button, and the difficulty has some wild inconsistant spikes at some points, the begining especially since you spend quite a long time defenseless against enemies, it gets better once you're not anymore, with one oddity though, even crouched you can't kill some enemies.

Same sorta goes about the gas mask powerup, the leaks are dealing devastating damage and sometimes i got killed from the knockback just because i tried to move on but there were still a few pixels of gas near the floor so i got thrown back into the other leaked that comboed me and killed me right away, now that being said death had me laugh cause of that wilhelm scream you put in there :p

Other than these, it was really fun, i managed to play the whole way through, and the powerups were really interesting.

Well done :)

so this game definitely has a lot of thought put into it. It's an interesting story, and there are lots of inventive things you do with the way the environment changes (the gas effecting the rest of the environment, especially how it interacted with the other chemicals). However it needs a lot of polish imo.

The controls are kind of awkward and I felt like i never really had enough space to work with to make the movement feel good. I sense you were going for a more semi-realistic feel. The slow movement speed, jump movement, and the stagger on walking down steps did not feel great overall. I also was unable to finish due to a bug. After falling into the area where the floor gets melted, I got hit by an enemy, which somehow flung me to a completely different room, where I died quickly due to the confusion. Upon restarting, I was in a room which, due to the unceasing gas falling from the sky, meant I could no longer progress in the game. One last thing, is there some sort of bug with the music, the music track seems to have some very loud static going on through the whole track. 

Some additional positives though. I love the voice in the game. Especially when Dr Kimmy mentions the big boi. I like the metroidvania style progress of opening up sections of the lab. And overall with some movement changes and polish this could be very good.

I love games with personality, this one is filled with it. My own submission has 0 personality and this bothers me a lot.

Gameplay wise, the movement is a bit clunky, maybe give it a little more polishing, but its a really interesting game filled with personality and originality.

ART

Nice like the vib and all the signs

SOUND

Liek the loop and the voice was decent :D

GAMEPLAY

Jumping was awkward and I could not shoot the ground slimes. overall the metroidvania was fun and enjoyable. some of the enemy spawns were a little too much and the gas colliders were a little rough.

OVERALL

Had a great time with this one! Well done :) 

Good job on submitting! 

Nice game!, the map sistem is really detailed. characters and artowrok in general is nice. controls are a little bit hard, to many enemies at some point make it really difficult to advance, collider for gas, and time for pass through this hazard is short, died a lot on that parts.

I love that you made rooms markable on the map.  I didn't really think about  implementing that functionality into my own. The character movement is a bit stiff, but I think the theme/setting really makes up for it.  Glad I got to give your game a play!

that was pretty fun!  I am glad you had infinite respawns, and I didn't have to do a lot of backtracking from spawn rooms.  I found myself dying a LOT.  But overall, it was fun!

You have chosen an interesting setting for your game, and that makes it stand out compared to others. Many people in this jam (including myself) have chosen a more medieval or wizardy theme, but a Matroidvania located in a laboratory is very well thought, and it works with the keys and pass cards to lock certain areas.

However, the gameplay itself needs to be improved to exploit the game to greater potential. I enjoyed adventuring in the laboratory, but the controls are kind of rough. It is difficult to evade enemies as your mobility is not very fluid.

Also, many enemies spawn near you when you change rooms, taking an inevitable hit when going to other rooms.

With a little bit more of polishing, it can be a great game!