This is incredibly impressive a game made in less than week. The scope of this is ridiculous.

The gameplay was fun and fluid, especially once you unlock more abilities. The only problem I had was the slightly clunky momentum making some jumps kind of difficult. I’d love to see this expanded upon, especially with more varied enemies.

I wasn’t able to make it to the final boss, sadly. I managed to get myself lost after finding the wall climb and triple jump upgrades. Still loved it though!

The sheer scope of this one. Lordy lord. Very impressive.

The game has a good diversity of abilities/armour enhancments, as well as a ludicrously sprawling map - very much in the spirit of Metroid. The menu & ability to Save/Load is a nice touch.

Given the amount of features and level work that's gone in, it's hard to fault the slightly clunky elements of moment to moment gameplay - but I do think that given more development this would be the area I'd like to see given a slick polish. The ideas are all there and implemented well enough, but there are occasional hiccups and moments that cause frustration when a double-jump doesn't pop properly, etc.

Really great job overall :)

where do you get off making a fully featured metroidvania in a 48 hour game jam?????

Good controls, beautiful music choices, insane level design, godlike usage of the art pack. My criticisms are that the double jump would intermittently fail to function, checkpoints are painfully rare, and the critical path after upgrades were not always as clear cut as they should. I very nearly turned away from the path forward after both the double jump and the glider upgrade because the level of precision the jump asked of me made me unsure whether it was the right choice. I am currently completely lost after I returned to the first area from the ice stage, but I can confidently say you knocked it insanely out of the park.

Your Mac build doesn't work. I get a simple "The application 'Miz Jam' cannot be opened. Let me know if you fix it, as i'm really interested in playing this one.

Really incredible use of the assets - the game looks gorgeous.
It's also ridiculously long! I got the glider and was scaling up the section after the glider, and I died and got sent back to the previous save point, so I gave up there. I think with the long platforming sections, more checkpoints along the way would be awesome.
And the platforming sections with the little car mode were kind of difficult to handle, due to the car's speed. 
I also was pretty irritated that the little robots would follow my character during the middle of their jump arc, made it really annoying to fight them. Seems like they should have been locked into their jump arc when they start it, allowing me the chance to sneak under them and shoot em down.

Other than those tiny little criticisms, it's an incredibly detailed, extremely polished, and very full game. Engaging as hell, and I enjoyed my lengthy playthrough quite a lot! Great work!

Impressive and really good usage of the art assets!

It is a good tribute to the 2D metroid, you nailed it the concept perfectly!

The only criticism that I have, it is about the controls of the main character, I found them quite stiff, so sometimes I found that the jumps were difficult to execute properly.

But overall really nice job!

This feels like a complete game, it's amazing. I appreciate the time you spent on the level design. And the start menu immediately establishes the theme, so good work there.

A few notes:

• You mentioned that you wanted to make the platforming challenging like Hollow Knight. I understand what you mean, but I would appreciate a little deceleration on the movement so that it wasn't too sensitive and harder to land jumps. In HK, there's a slight delay between releasing input and movement stopping, so it just feels a little more fluid.  I don't think it's lag, either.
• I experienced lateral movement is disabled while in the air if you are also pressing up. Not sure if this was intentional.
• I notice the enemies freeze when they are off screen. In some situations, that means an enemy jumps in the air and doesn't reappear until I look up there haha

I like the challenge of navigating your way around and remembering the locations you have to revisit. Very good exploration feel, and very satisfying to build up your sense of the world. It was very immersive!

i like what you made out of the art kit!

Can't play this game right now cause my internet is failing but from the screenshots there's alot of quality into the art^^

Maybe i'll download it tonight

(just wanted to give props for art originality lol)

Ok so it got me playing for I think half an hour or maybe an hour, I was completerly absorbed. Awesome work!
I would add a map, don't consider them as suggestions but a personal preference. I felt lost some times in the mountains and especially when I returned to the first area but from another point.
Also, in the part where you fall down a lot and have to go back up, I was interested in trying all the paths I saw ans many times they just brought me back down. I think it's a problem with the fact that your game initially proposes a wide range of exploration, but in that section it's mainly straight platforming, so it's a little confusing, but a map would have made it more clear.
All things considered, PLEASE make this into a full game, I love it!

Very polished indeed, in terms of presentation and overall style. Really clever use of the assets with some nice scene decoration and what I assume are combined sprites. I think with more time, going forward, a bit of variety in the visual presentation of the various areas would help, but otherwise, great stuff. 

While I think the presentation is polished (menus, music, sounds) I find the gameplay could have used some more time. Adding some lerp to the movement would have made it feel a lot better.

Despite that, making a metroidvania this expansive is an impressive undertaking for a game jam, well done!

I think I've played enough of the game where I can provide proper feedback. There is a lot so I will section it off.

Keyboard Controls:

aside from what we've already discussed, I think 4 buttons for abilities is way too many to keep track of, especially once you add more complex enemies and weapons.

I think this can be simplified to just two buttons: shoot and glide. If you are willing to make a small sacrifice you can even narrow it to just shoot.

Air Jump: this can be bound to the spacebar 

Droid climb: this can can be bound to right/left + up while against a wall. 

Glide: if you're willing to sacrifice aiming up in the air, you can make it bound to up while in the air. Either way, it would feel more natural if you could press down while gliding to cancel it.

Also, it would be nice to have movement bound to WASD but that's just a personal preference.

Navigation

I respect your decision to not include a minimap, but as is the game is really hard to gage whether you're making progress or have even visited an area before. I have a few ideas on how to fix that.

You could add more unique landmarks to the map, like a giant derelict robot in the background. This would make players recognize the terrain better and know if they've been somewhere before.

You could alternatively add a way for players to mark areas if a player realizes they need to come back with a powerup. Similarly, you could mark the areas a player has been in some way, such as with fog that gets cleared or something.

If you're willing to compromise slightly on adding a map, you could only add a map that shows the overall world areas. No player marker, no details, just an overview of how each area connects to each other and how shows how many areas there are.

Progress

In open world games it is good to have an end goal to work towards so the game doesn't feel aimless. In Zelda: Breath of the Wild you always know where ganons castle is but you know you aren't powerful enough to take him on until you explore. This game could use something similar, because I have (what I believe to be) all the upgrades and have explored almost everywhere in the map but I couldn't find the boss.

Overall

This is an amazing game, especially for a game jam. It feels expansive, immersive, and is really well done. This is definitely my favorite game I've played so far and definitely the most ambitious. Keep working on this and you will have a really solid Metroidvania on your hands! Don't let my criticism be discouraging, I only took the time to write all the criticism because I enjoyed the game so much. Good job!

Very impressive amount of work gone into this!Will be replaying with a controller after reading other comments. Really impressed with  the main character and overall creativity with the sprites

Creating a metroidvania is an impressive feat, well done! I got lost and couldn't finish though, maybe consider adding a map if you continue working on this.

Wow, I started playing this not realizing you had made an ENTIRE metroidvania, hats off my man. The music was all great and the second (mine) area reminded me of The Dig, kinda. In a good way.

The only thing I would bother changing so far is the drone controls--they're a little touchy. Especially when I just want to move a little bit. (Though I was playing on mouse and keyboard, so that might be a me thing?) 

I'll probably go finish this some time, but for now I gotta leave a comment and rating.  Really great job!

I don't have a controller so this was really janky to play, but the intended way is with a controller so not your fault. From what I could tell so far, the art is used really creatively and the menus are all really polished. Wish this had more keyboard support, but looks like a great game anyways!