I think the leaning was super cool, but the game all around needs a bit more feedback to make interactions more clear. It could probably be introduced better too because right after you do it, you need to start killing enemies. The game is pretty punishing with health, especially with the fall damage. I think the dialogue pop-ups telling you where you can and can't go hurt the Metroidvania-ness of it. Really cool vibe though, love the graphics and theming. Great project!

Cool idea with the leaning against a wall to dodge enemies. Those jumps were hard and the slipperiness didn't help. Some of the backgrounds blended into the level geometry and made it hard to distinguish what was walkable and what wasn't.

I managed to play through it all, but boy was this game hard.

Adding fall damage to a metroidvania was a brave decision! It was waaay too punishing though, like even falling from the shortest height would damage you. The character was a bit too slow and made jumping even more cumbersome. Fortunately, the gravity boots eased much of the early game frustration, so I kept pushing through.

I liked the enemies, but those flying monkeys gave me some real PTSD (and my dumb ass thought they were crazed pidgeons before the dialogue clarified it for me). The boss fight was very interesting, but the fact his projectiles could block my own made me die a LOT to my fireballs. Finally, as others have said, the control scheme could use some serious work.

On the upside, I loved the aestethics! Your art style paired with that background music (did you compose it?) made it somewhat unsettling, which I absolutely liked.

With more work on the character controller and nerfed fall damage, this could be pretty great! Despite all the issues, I love challenging games and had my fair share of fun.

Art is awesome! Gameplay is little bit clunky but overtime you get used to it and it becomes kind of feature/ Unfortunately, I got stuck several times with no means to continue playing. Once I fell into the crack and was stuck in falling animation without actually falling. Second (and third) I died, but after checkpoint reset was still in dead state, rotating in place and shooting, but in form of immobile meat pile.

Overall there is mtroidvania vibe in it, and I had (not fun, but) exictment playing and exploring.

PS. Any chance you understand russian (your surname looks slavic)? I could write more coherent opinion, if you would understand it.

This is quite a challenging one, I did get the boots but they were very hard to use. It was very easy to die from fall damage since you are allowed to fall for a very small distance without taking it and how the boots should have been used wasn't very clear. If used too early, you could jump too high and die because of that and if used too late you might not make the required distance at all. So yeah, the controls leave a lot to be desired. The graphics remind me of some old flash games which I really enjoy lol.

Hey! I'm a creature of habit so the controls were a little tough on me so I didn't get very far sadly, but I'll give what feedback I can . I like the crouch mechanic, not a lot of games seem to have incorporated it.  I liked the realistic feel in the gameplay such as fall dmg, went well with the overall ambiance. The old school art gives a rustic feel, felt like I was transported in a good way. There were some bugs upon dying mainly is when it would glitch but nothing major. I would suggest maybe introducing difficulty a little more gradually, for example just having an initial area for tutorial/getting used to how jumps feels, then adding the real danger. 

There's quite a few interesting aspects to this game! The art is very interesting and unique. It has a very cool retro , simplified aesthetic I really enjoyed. The health bar idea is cool too. Gameplay wise, I hit a few stumbling blocks, especially with the instant-death pitfalls. I got a bit frustrated from missing the tiny platforms and having to start over :(

I really dig the vibe of this game but it was a bit too punishing for me to progress very far

Interesting game, but I didn't have the patience to play for too long sadly.

Aesthetics are pretty viby, they give me the feeling of "old PC disk" games, despite me never actually living that era. Not sure if that was the intention, but it surely work for that lol. I also always appreciate me some lore :)

Fall damage on platformers are always a surprise, but they can definitelly work. Altought, the way you implemented it here is a little too much, since you can literally die by jumping out of a small hill instead of walking out of it (Granted, this way it generated some hylarious looking deaths, so that's a plus on my book). The collision with the floor also fely slippy, the player ends up sliding down from the platforms if they hit it on a corner, and I assume that happens because the player hitbox is a circle. In this case I'd say it's important to add a failsafe where the player would always be put on top of the platforms when hitting them from a corner, specially so for a game with fall damage, since most of the times I fell to my death didn't actually feel like my fault.

The control scheme is just really weird tho. I already don't like jumping with the spacebar, but that I understand it's personal preference, so I can live with it, but now using G and H on a game that moves with the arrow keys is just wrong honestly, not to mention having to make your hands travel all the way to Enter for every dialogue that pops up is also quite the chore. Ideally, you should be able to close the pop us with either the shooting or jumping button, and the gravity boots and healing runes should be somewhere near X like C and V, or even change the gravity boots to be activated if pressing up while on the air, anything is better than a key that is on the middle of the keyboard that you need to either take your hands out of the other inputs or stretch your fingers on really weird ways.

Also missed some more feedback for receiving damage, but in this case it didn't feel like as big as an issue as it did on other entries tbh. Either way, I only played up until getting the gravity boots, since everytime I died after that I would respawn with a buggy pop up message that I needed to keep spamming Enter to get rid of, plus being poop sniped by the big sparrow that lives there while saved with what was essentially 1 hp. And of course, to get out of there I would have to use the item that is triggered with G.

Anyway, here's a gameplay vid if you wanna see it, it was actually fun enought to play that little beggining btw, I just stopped because I really couldn't dig the control scheme

(Also, I actually played this game a few hours ago, but my laptop's battery died before I could finish writing my comment, so those toughts aren't super fresh on my mind anymore, so I might have forgotten to mention something else)

Edit: I just opened the game up again to confirm the controls, and I think I discovered a secret forbidden move by pressing V x)

Hey was able reach the magic boots part, the main issue to me seems to be the lack of coyote-time it would probably make the player 100% better to control(I think theres nothing wrong with the jump), the art style is unique and reminds me of mosaic paintings lol, and I have never seen an health bar done that way.

Very cool game! I was able to get the crossbow, and loved getting through the enemies you had set up in the area. The art design of this is really great, and gives serious Another World/Heart of Darkness vibes. There were some accessibility issues - taking such radical fall damage prevented me from getting much further than the crossbow, and the lack of health regen (other than the sparse healing spells) made it extra punishing.

Seeing more of the world would be excellent! It was so easy to get sucked in, despite the challenge. Thanks so much for putting this together!

The game makes me think a lot to metroid, and in regard of the theme it's pretty normal. The art is good and i loved the detail that even butterfly are hostile, but i confess that game with slow character are not my thing. I didn't finish the game because the mages are too powerful for m :,[

Good game! I like the art style because it reminds me a bit of Another World. There are some interesting mechanics such as hiding against a wall to avoid enemies. I struggled with the platforming & suggest tuning the jump physics.