really cool game did not beat it yet but I will give it another go, really well made, I love the retro vibe i got when playing it for some reason it reminded me of paying those old school coin op arcade cabinets loved so much but at least now i don't have to feed the game any quarters !

This game has a lot of work! Congratulations!

I loved the mechanics and the map. The way the player acquires new skills is really funny and the game difficulty is good enough to have a great time playing. Good game!

I think the presentation is great and the sounds are nice. I also like the story and the text chat boxes. Certain jumps were a little strange, especially those with the ceiling above the player. The combat was nice, and I liked the enemy variety.  To nitpick, I wasn't really a fan of the serpentine sigil as I ended up having to circle the first area over and over to find the 15th sigil which was in a pot or something. I also think the movement was pretty stiff. I also think it's a little difficult to find yourself in the world as a lot of areas look similar.

Overall though, awesome work :D

That's a really good one! Aesthetics are pretty nice despite being kinda simple. the sound effects were a little too loud at first, and didn't feel like they fit the music at all, but I ended up getting used to them anyway.
Control scheme is really not my cup of tea tho. I'm personally really unconfortable with both shift and spacebar, so I probably struggled a little more than other people while playing this. Still, this is more of a me issue anyway. With that in mind, the character actually controls really well, the moveset is overall pretty fluid and fun to mess with.
I also really like the little story, it is pretty fun, and quite creative.

That said, now I guess I have to adress my nitpicks, and... oh boy...
First of all, the level design. It is actually very good for the majority of it, I don't have a lot of critiques on that area, the only thing I have to say about that is that it had quite a few blind jumps and "blind dashes", if you know what I mean. In fact, the very first jump on the game is already a blind jump. I also felt super lost for most time, I swear as soon as I picked up the double jump I had absolutely no idea where to go, and no joke, I think I took around 10 minutes or more to discover the way to progress on the middle of all the chaos. (Altought that was kinda my fault too, since I was just dumb and forgot I had a map to look into until I was already near the end of the game, wich would have helped, but still, having a more intuitive dungeon would have been nice)

This game is also really hard, and not in a good way at all. I myself am usually the kind of person that really enjoys and activelly looks up for more challenging games, but this one here was actually very frustrating.
First of all, laser eyes. No offense here, really, but those dudes were the single most annoying enemy I fought on this entire jam so far. They shoot super suddenly, with absolutely no telegraphing, have the fire rate of a machine gun (not really, but certainly felt like it), their lasers are way too fast and way too big, and the big majority of those guys are around pits of spikes. I lost the count of how many times I got hit by one of those lasers, fell into spikes and died, not to mention how much times I got hit by them while I was just trying to wander around and find my way to go, get comboed, die again, and go back to the last checkpoint. Those guys alone almost made me drop the game before finishing, thanks god I remembered the minimap existed at that moment, otherwise I wouldn't have pushed throught. Those little devils really doesn't tie well with how the game plays, they feel out of place and like absolute cheaters.
The Boss on the end isn't nearly as problematic as the laser eyes, but he also didn't feel really great either. The only thing I can really point out about what made this guy feel cheap is that, despite my sword being able to destroy projectiles, his bullets in specific had a destroying animation, and for some reason those bullets still can damage you while they are playing that destroying animation, wich feels super unfair as well.
And lastly, a really tiny thing, that is actually almost irrelevant, it doesn't impact the gameplay nearly as much as those other two things, but the little bomber lizards can still throw their bombs even while they play the hurt animation. This is not a huge issue, since they still telegraph the bomb throw before I hit them, but I'd expect that if hitting them cancels the telegraph animation, it would cancel the attack itself too, so I took some bombies on the face that also felt a little cheap.

Don't get me wrong tho, this is still a really good entry, and it's very fun when there are no laser eyes around. I just really tought it would be good to take all that off my chest after playing this. And remenber that, as I said, I'm not much of a shift and spacebar guy, so you should probably take all my critiques with a grain of salt.

I really enjoy the story and art of the game. It is all cohesive and interesting and just works. Same with the way you obtain new abilities. It just all feels very diegetic, which works great. Same with the level design, it felt really enjoyable to traverse and explore. I would really like to explore it further, but just couldn't really. I bounced off the difficulty, especially the spikes. For the first thing you encounter they feel very punishing. Maybe adding some very small difficulty levels that eliminate insta kills and add more health could help.  All in all it were just my personal issues with the gameplay, but if someone can get through the hard parts, they will find a great game.  Good job!

Very complete and fun, a bit difficult at times, as others have commented, I would have liked to have more lives, or that when you fell on spikes it would take away a life but you would not die and could recover by jumping.

In general I liked it a lot, especially the level design. A very cool metroidvania. Congratulations!!

Great! Animation, art, story, and level design are all on point. 

A small nitpick, but some of the jumps feel tough due to a ceiling / floor block being too close to each other. There are a few jumps where it seems like I can make it, but just barely can't. 

Great job!

Fantastic game! The art is nice, especially the derpy tongue as he jumps. The story was surprisingly touching, and I enjoyed the final boss fight (this as someone who generally dislikes bosses).

A few minor quibble about polish: there are spikes which you can fall onto without seeing them, the "coyote time" doesn't seem to work on moving platforms, and the dash cooldown isn't indicated in any way I could tell. As I say, minor problems. Overall, this was a really nice entry. 

I liked the level design. It looped back on itself very nicely, and the checkpoints were much appreciated. That said, you could maybe be more generous with checkpoints early on, to help ease players in.

EDIT: And apparently there's a map screen? The level design was clear enough that I never found myself needing it.

Presentation side is good, i like the looks and sound side of things. I bounced off of gameplay a lot, I had unexpected spike deaths, head bumps on some jumps, couldn't get the feel of it at all, but it looks like that's just personal problem rather than issue with the game itself. Even though I couldn't get far, I think this is a solid entry!

Things I liked:

-The metroidvania theme is well applied

-The art was great

-The music was good, though it didn't fit with the environment

-It has lore

Things I didn't like:

-Spam of the breakable things, got me out of the game a little

-The camera movement is so rigged that made me dizzy, some smoothing could be good

-Falling into spikes makes you go to the last checkpoint, I think just going back to the last platform would be enough

-There was a bug with the appearing platforms that if I jumped just before it appeared it would send me to mars

I think the game it's fun overall, with some polish would be really good, hope to see an update :)

Very nice game an very good presentation!

Fun little platformer and nice puzzles.

I loved your game but I would like that when the player falls on the spikes he does not die respawning at the beginning

Excellent game, played through all the way to the end and had a lot of fun!

encountered a bug where the game becomes unresponsive if you select credits or instructions on the main menu

thought story was nice and aesthetic works well to-its well presented especially with the font choice. also liked the idea of collecting sigils to progress

i did notice there were some blind jumps (when the platform you're trying to get to isn't visible on screen).  including one right at the beginning of the game

also the platforming controls felt a bit off for me

i liked the size of the map, everything felt nice and close by while also still having a lot of different challenges to go through

would suggest some indicator that the cooldown for the fireball has finished as it could feel a bit unresponsive when pressing the button, wondering when it'll come back

anyway, it was very complete experience with a fairly large variety of abilities

like the graphic, awesome gameplay and love that story! found some small bug (sometimes you need to jump when you are passing through those disappearing grey blocks), but overall enjoyed playing your game :D

Good job on the game man. I really enjoyed it. For me the beginning part was a bit hard, because I fell down on the spikes quite some times. I don't know if it is me, but that part gave me a headache. Other than that everything was great in my opinion.

You managed to make enemies annoying, which is great in this type of games ( talking about to laser eyes and bomb thrower lizards ).

Hope to see more from you :)

Really impressive amount of polish for the amount of time. Great job!