Awesome game. Beautiful artwork, great idea, great execution, great soundscape, very polished. I haven't played all of the other games yet, but so far it is my personal winner of this game jam.

But I also have a bit of constructive criticism:

• Some sprites suffer from pillow shading (even though their design is great otherwise). It's especially pronounced in the blue slimes when they are on the ground.
• The downward thrust move isn't particularly useful
• Please keep in mind that on many keyboards, the Z and X keys are nowhere near each other. That made it a bit awkward to play for a QWERTZ keyboard user like me. If you don't want to add key remapping to your game (and seriously, who has time and motivation to do that in a game jam), try to stick to "save" keys like arrow keys, ctrl, shift and space. 
• I am missing the relation to the "pocket sized" theme. Seems a bit tagged on.

But that's all really just nitpicking. You did a great job in these 72 hours.

Great game! I only have 2 things to comment on: 1) We should be able to skip the intro, when I want to play the game again it becomes a bit annoying. 2) I don't like the idea of making a sword attack projectile, a long-range melee attack could be better. Otherwise, well done! :)

Good idea to allow short-hopping. Makes downwards attacks a bit easier than from a full-height jump.

Retro art and music and sound effects are good!

I really really like the game play! comboing the slimes with mid air attacks feels so fun, I wish their was more tech to combo attacks with. the jump physics feel really nice too. 

The only thing I don't like is how you are forced to stop when doing a regular ground attack, it stops the momentum of gameplay for me. maybe you could have a tilt-attack option to do thrust the keeps you moving and a non-tilt attack that still stops momentum. 

The game looks really nice btw.