Hello just want to start off with that this was a really pleasant and fun experience! A very solid entry! I love the artstyle and the theme of the game!
I'll just run down some notes that I took while playing!
Visuals were simple but cute and I liked them, however I think they would do well with more polish and more animation but I understand that's hard to accomplish in such a small period of time!
I think the player could use from being a little faster so the movement feels a bit nicer!
There were a bit too many NPCs in the game compared to actual gameplay, I understand this is just a personal preference though!
I love the hub zone and shop but my main gripe with it was that this felt more like a zone platformer than an actual metroidvania albeit had alot of metroidvania elements! If thats what you were going for than disregard this bit!
Overall a very sleeper entry and has a lot of potential and cool additions!
PS: Super minor thing but when zipping put everything in a single folder so it's a lot easier to just extract and play over asking the player to make a folder for it!
PS2: I just read the comment where u had only an hour a day to work on it and you are a single developer, this makes this all the more cooler! And I loved the storyboard-esque intro at the start, had a cozy feeling to it!