How even?! I was awestruck when I saw the horizontally scrolling stars seamlessly transition, moving toward the camera as the ship undocked and flew away. That was so immersive and mind-melting that I could watch it all day. Also, the ship's many animations during flight look fantastic. It was a joy just to move around the screen and watch it happen. I really appreciated the variations in game play, too. I feel like you must be a writer of some sort because the story here is so intriguing and we only have a taste of what's in store. Not only that, it works into the gameplay with the temporal portal stuff. Also, that setup in the cramped garbage pit was top notch; both from a gameplay aspect and storytelling. Gets us right into the game itself before swiftly moving along and opening up to something much bigger. In a word: Stellar

I want a "making-of" for this demo, because I see no way to create things like the stars in the NESMaker engine AT ALL.  The slowdown should be tremendous; how is it not?

Holy crap! This game deserves a lot more hype. This does not feel like any of the "default" NESmaker modules. The fight in the beginning made me think this might be a pit fighter / brawler. It became so much more. The behind-the-player space battle perspective was great and I liked the rings. You're so good at telling stories through cutscenes. Some of the cutscene animations I can't imagine how you did, it seemed like there was too much going on for it to be sprites alone. This is an incredible game demo and you should be very, very, very proud. I felt like I was really immersed in the story and it sort of had the style of a modern storytelling action-adventure game (I don't know examples, King Kong? modern Tomb Raider?) and aspects of oldschool Sierra adventures like the Space Quest games.