Awesome music (especially Main Menu) and overall great sounds, although I think they could fit the visuals a little better. With music, I would have liked for the instruments to be less modern on the Overworld ost, but I really enjoyed it anyway. Some minor things with the sfx: stereo sounds for game objects don't work too well (especially footsteps, or flippersteps...) and having a stereo reverb muddies up the landscape where your music can't sit very well on the mix anymore. I also would have liked even the tiniest sfx for water movement, and I would add a bit more low layers on your Enter or Exit water sounds. I like to limit the frequency range near the end of the master chain to mimic retro system's audio better, same with dynamic range. And lastly, I would have loved for sfx to go through a bit of reverb, and EQ'ing everything when you enter water. All this said, I still enjoyed both music and sfx a lot, and they helped me immerse in this beatiful landscape.

Art direction is insane, probably the best one in the jam. It looks great, the animations are beautiful, and the tile sets bring a great level design to shine. It really feels as if this game was already one of the classic metroidvanias back in the day. Great great stuff! 

Movement feels nice, teleport is super fun and the hidden rooms are cool to find. Very clever level design! The amount of content you guys made is also very impressive! 

Sorry for posting my review so late, I did rate your game among the highest (if no the highest) entry for the jam, I really liked it. Congrats!

Very cool entry! Great sense of exploration and some clever uses of the teleport ability for both secret hearts and to progress through the game. Thankful for the map, would have been a little difficult to figure out where to go without it. Wish there was a little more feedback on attacking an enemy, but the combat is okay for what it is. I did manage to teleport into an area before getting Spit, and got stuck. Here's a screenshot of that location. But I had a fun time with it, great job!

Wow! Made it to the end, missed one heart. Not sure what the empty vessels are about. The only very minor things of note where:

• Full screen on my ultra wide cut off the top/bottom so I just had to play in the window…
• Which I think mean that the zoomed out views could make collision surfaces shimmer since they took up so few pixels.
• This also meant the controller icons were a little hard to see but it was easy enough to figure out.
• The collision box/or jump animation felt a little off. The only time it was a problem was the precision jumping between spikes, I felt like I really had to under-jump.

I was a little concerned with the spike boss but it only had to go down half way, not all the way so not an issue. Good checkpoint placement, I didn’t feel like I wasted time redoing sections after dying.

The level design, art, music, everything was so nice! All the movement felt good, nothing felt janky. With slight exception of the precision spikes, everything felt fair, deaths were my fault. I should have gone to bed but instead I had to play to the end, well done, would love to see more!

• Really cool, a lot of polish here! Adorable character and atmosphere
• Appreciate the map :)
• I found the hitboxes on the spikes a bit too big? I found it difficult to teleport through them safely, even when I was being careful
• There were a few places that required me to jump out from under an overhang and midair control to get on top of it. Those weren't so much fun
• The one heart that's blocked by a leaf felt a bit meh, cause I navigated the spikes, only to get there and discover I couldn't get the reward
• The little village was v cute. AFAICT there wasn't anything to do there?
• I couldn't find the power to unfurl the green leaves? Felt like I looked everywhere I could. In the end this became a blocker for me :'( 

Really great job!! The world feels so fleshed out and thought through for the timeframe given, and everything feels very polished and fun. I loved exploring this cavernous world, and the platypus character is a super cute and amazing. The water sections are very fluid and fun, so good job on breaking the "water levels are the least fun" curse. I don't really have any notes, the map is well-made, the abilities are unique and well implemented, and the enemy designs are quite nice. Very well done!! :D

So, fantastic job, the artwork, music, and game design are on another level! I didn't have a problem with the gravity, I thought it felt true to a cool little platypus jumping around. Which by the way how do you even think of that? Very cool. 

Although not what my hands are used to, I didn't have a problem with the controls until the cat boss when I had to do multiple things at the same time in an unfamiliar schema, so my brain started to take issue lol. I'm sure everyone has their own opinion, but for me I would have preferred wasd movement, jump on space, and teleport on L shift, with the attacks on right handed inputs: either LMB for attack and RMB for shoot, or keys like J/K/L. 

But that's honestly still pretty minor in the scheme of things. The teleport is actually really interesting, it adds a whole new dimension of movement that we take for granted so often. If not over, then through! Awesome job, I really enjoyed this a lot! 

That’s beautiful, really, amazing artwork, the transitions of colors, the water effects, the animations, music, sfx everything it’s amazing.

Strong winner candidate.

I’m a simple guy, I love beautiful pixel art, and your gone deep in my heart, thanks. Just nee some adjusts on controls, and jump, but overall amazing game. I’ve reviwed this game on my youtube chanel the video will be released tomorow, maybe a have droped a tear on camera, sorry I’m soft.

WHYYYYY is the player jump like that. Why do they just plummet like a rock instantly after reaching the peak of their jump. What is this. Any other issue I had with the game is just nitpicks compared to this, dear god that jump arc is an abomination.

Having a teleport is awesome, one of the best metroidvania upgrades out there and it's used well enough here. I'm not a fan of having it bound to space though, I never like having to hit space quickly and frequently with arrows + zx controls - its awkward to keep my thumb on the space bar with my other fingers so low on the keyboard. Would be nice to have rebindable controls.

Map is nice. I wasn't a huge fan of it aesthetically but ultimately that doesn't matter - it's a good map, I always appreciate ones that actually show terrain and pois.

Visuals were kind of awkward. There's some stretched out sprites here and there, and the pixel art on the sprites themselves is pretty messy. I found the game a bit headache inducing honestly.

also platypus protagonist is awesome. please please fix that jump though

Gorgeous!! Amazing job ❤️

Nice game! Some of the platforming challenges were a bit frustrating, it took me quite a while to get used to the player movement :P

Still very good overall tho!