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Good concept! The Hollow Knight  vibes that it produces feels nostalgic. I loved the level design, and the visuals by itself. However, I noticed a few things that could be improved. As promised, here are my thoughts:

• The level design is really good. I loved the platformer elements of it.
• The game needed more sound effects, and particle effects on jumping, movement etc.
• The art on the cutscene and the effects on it felt really good. But it felt like the game did not meet the same level of polish as the cutscene. I would much rather prefer consistent visuals over something imbalanced. The dialogue box on the cutscene felt a bit weird, I would recommend getting rid of the black box, and add bigger font text, perhaps with an outline, and looks cartoony.
  
  For the jam, I would have recommended toning down the quality of the cutscene, and make everything visually balanced. But if you are improving this game, which I think you should, I recommend spending more time with the art, perhaps add more post-processing, add vignette, contrasts, play around with color schemes, to make it coherent as the cutscene (In which the background blew my mind).
  
  The reason I am stressing on this is having a really visually polished cutscene in the intro, creates high expectations. And if the game in itself, isn't anything close to that, the energy goes down subconsciously, and you don't want that in a game.
• Furthermore, if you are expanding on the game, I would recommend adding enemies, more difficulty, and if possible, make the spikes easier to see. I know it can be counter-intuitive to take away challenge, but it works, trust me. Making the spikes more visible will allow the player to take the rest of the beauty of the world in. This makes them feel more connected with the game in itself.
  This also gives us room to add more spikes, and challenges as well. 

I hope you understand that this is feedback, and I will not be dishonest with you. I want to see more better games being added, and I would love for you to continue working on this game. All the best.

Oh by the way, here is the silly little game I made in 3 days for this jam . I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks.