This game is super cute and complete in a lot of ways! You have help for control layout, inventory, and I can change the volume too. And then we have sound effects and nice background music that isn’t too much or too little or annoying! So, on the whole very well done!

For some reason in the game jam more than any other’s I’ve had a lot of problems with game control schemes. And this game has the same issue. (Does ours? I would love to know what you think!) When I saw the control scheme help I was excited for a bit! I thought I would be able to rebind. But no. So I could use the game pad for some things, but not everything. I still had to use the mouse to do attacks.

I guess the lesson - for me anyway - is that control schemes matter a lot and having a bad one destroys player/reviewer’s ability to enjoy the game and in a lot of cases get very far. So, when in doubt use tried-and-true control schemes from well known games or schemes we could think of as “standard”. Supporting the use of game pads will help too, and also defaulting schemes that work for right-handers and left-handers as well. (WASD just isn’t comfortable for lefties like me.) On top of that we have alternative keyboard layouts available in other countries. But you use Godot, so binding actions with physical keys will cover that case too.

One other thing which may be a bug is after I died 3 times and was returned to the start, the background music stopped and I couldn’t move the character anymore. Maybe it was just me though.

With some kinks ironed out this would be a great game! Keep it up!

Please try our game, rate it and let us know what you think in the submission comments! That would help us out a lot!

Super cute character, fun gameplay, and the music is STELLAR. It's really something.

The only feedbacks I could add is that the game is very linear, and I got kinda stuck on the boss (it killed me a lot while doing the shockwaves). 

But wow it's so polished. Great work on this one.

This is one of my favorites so far. The music is excellent. But it seems more like a classic platform game than a metroidvania. Anyway, the result you delivered is impressive and very well polished, congratulations!

The level of polish and attention to detail is amazing. It's small things like the flounder/dab only having eyes when facing one direction that all worked together perfectly. I do have some feedback though:

• There were some input issues at times. I tried on both keyboard and pad, but found that not all inputs were mapped for pads and I had an issue where sometimes (usually upon restarting) where no inputs were registered at all.
• I found the fish frustrating to fight because they'd swim above me (above my character's attack hitbox) and get in free hits. This did add to the challenge, but the lack of checkpoints made me less enthused to restart.
• It felt more like an action platformer than a metroidvania. Granted, a lot of metroidvania games are also action platformers, but the sense of "explore and unlock new things" was missing due to the linearity. 

Other than that, the artwork and world is gorgeous. It's clever that all the the octopus's weapons are thing found on the ocean floor (rocks, sticks, etc). Picking up each item was initially cool — I just wish enemies gave exp or items too.

what a great job with the art and design

a cute game...loved it

i struggled with the controls tho....like every once a while the game would stop taking input from both mouse and keyboard....maybe that's just a webgl issue but yea 

keep up the good work 👏

I like the art...really polished!

I love how alive the character feels. The way the octopus wakes up in the beginning and all of the little animations you've included give the character life. Super cool. Music fits super well too. Presentation is excellent. I dig it :)