This is an extremely impressive entry. Feels a lot like an old 8-bit game. Like a lot of others, though, I lost steam in the second area when I needed to collect powerups before moving on. Tweaking some things to make it a little more fair would make this game magnificent. For example, the weapon range could be extended, or the gravity could be tweaked so the player can more easily jump over enemies, or the player could have more health regeneration options, or enemy placement could be tweaked to create fewer near-impossible situations. Really impressed by this though, especially considering this is a solo project. Well done.

Oh, and I'm sure you're already thinking about this, but some sfx on the player weapon firing will help improve the feel a lot. 

Awesome game and very well polished! The camera felt a little bit too close to the character and fixed movement gave me a bit of a dizziness

Very polished submission! Variaty of enemies is unbelievable.

Often enough when having multiple rythmic jumps in a row I felt like jump key press was missed. Also, in a couple of places I felt like platforms are just a bit too far from each other, needing to press jump when you already on the very edge of the platform.

I don't know if it's a rule or not, I'm used to Z - jump, X - attack. Here it is exact opposite, I missed many times until get used to it.

Mechanics are implemented very well: enemies, lianas, and even shooting from lianas. I didn't try water yet, only beated mosqiuto boss and found flower boss for which I just don't feel having enough powerups yet.

Map here would be more than handy, it's almost a must. The world is huge.

Overall, it's fun game, polished and full of action! 

Awesome job man. You've received a lot of feedback so I'll attempt not to repeat a lot from other reviews:

The controls are simple but extremely satisfying. I was getting a dopamine rush with every jump I nailed. 

It's already been said but your character design is awesome, Special mention to Trice and his little crafty hands as he summons flies to attack, and to the dove that intentionally or not looked like he was flexing every time he flapped. 

It could just be me but while the music was good it didn't really fit the aesthetic of the game and after awhile It became a little grating. 

It's awesome that you made this on your own! especially something that feels so complete. Keep up the good work!

This was a really cute game, love the lil mushroom guy lol. Getting legs too was very funny. I also appreciate starting with absolutely nothing (I tried to do a similar thing in my game too). I think it would have helped ever so slightly to show the player what button to press as soon as they get the powerup, but it was designed in a way (at least with the legs and arms) that I couldn't really leave until I had opened the inventory and figured it out, so I can't really complain!

I especially loved your enemy designs, not just artistically but I thought they all had very unique and engaging movesets! There was a staggering amount of variety too! I also appreciate stuff like the spore mushroom platforms if those count as enemies, simple but good ideas.

I would recommend putting a timer on the water, or depleting health over time. It's clear that you probably will die, however it wasn't eeentirely clear that I was gonna die despite flashing low oxygen. Or rather, the danger feels less tangible. It's a little troubling on stuff like the part where you need to wait in a pool for the saw to pass overhead

The scope of this game was huge! Big map, 3 bosses?? I played for like, an hour and I didn't even get to the other 2 bosses. Made some ways in to the beach before I got exhausted. There is a looot of enemies and sometimes there aren't many breaks between them. At some point I just give up and go "I'm just gonna damage boost through this because it's going to take way too many hits, TWO totems right next to each other after this long run, no thanks"

Besides that, I think it could have benefited a looot from a map, it's very easy to get lost and retread old ground without having idea where to look next or where you've already been. Congrats on making something this big and varied, I'm interested to get to the other bosses maybe when I have time later, the mosquito boss was well put together and challenging!

Totally Felt like a Metroidvania! 

Really liked the way of gaining ability as a mutation and the whole concept.

Music was enjoyable.

That starting cutscene really gave it a good kickstart

overall game mechanics were good and fun playing

and the game is quite hard, jumping in narrow spaces is very frustrating as I can't doge and incoming projectiles from enemies.

Fought a bug boss, his hp was too high might have to fight it afterwards in game

really liking this one.... got as far as the climbing ability... and it speaks volumes that my biggest complaint would be that your vomit attack is hardly visible against the background, the movement took a tiny bit of time to get used to but afterwards felt pretty reasonable. 

Great sprite work and even if I have only seen a fraction of the game I can already tell this is an incredible effort, for a month long Jam solo game.

Really appreciate the save working on such a large game as going to come back and finish this one

Love the aesthetic super cute and fun. The save functionality is really handy too and I just really enjoyed collecting my own body parts along the way was awesome!!! Also loved all of the enemies, those birds spitting worms ahahaha. Plus the music was a blast love the 8bit vibe to it

I mostly agree with dancollins' reviev, but I personally don't think that  fast movement works for this game

I agree with the majority of TeamSunForge's response. Except the floaty jumps. I felt like jumping/gravity was a bit heavy. It made it a little harder initially than I felt it should be. Is it possible that I missed an upgrade that made jumps floaty?

I definitely feel like fast movement works for this game, but the gravity should be a little less intense.

This project shows promise! I quit out of frustration on the second stage after gaining the climbing ability and pressing the blue switch, however. I may try again, but until then, here's some comments.

There are a number of things that make navigating around the enemies very frustrating. The enemies are very bullet spongey, your projectile is tiny and hard to hit with, and you have very little health. All of that combined makes for a lot of deaths and having to run through a gauntlet again and hope that you don't get hit by random stuff on the way.

The jumping feels kind of floaty. Combined with a speed windup from when you start walking to full tilt running, this can make certain platforming parts with long drops that will need another roundabout return route frustrating.

I enjoyed the aesthetics and the music! The flamethrower guy was a very random enemy to show up after just a bunch of wildlife.