2.5 hours in and that chicken still eludes me, however I've had a blast looking for it.
This is a giant game in terms of scope, and pulls it off for the most part. The item progression system feels great; your investments are noticeable and plays well into an overall power fantasy.
I think, like you have said, there are significant challenges by building two games at once and mixing them, risking both being half-baked. That isn't the case here, both the space shooter and crawler are fleshed out and have the expected features. More impressive is the level of polish on both. This is giga polished overall, and I think the only rough edges that I noticed across the entire game were some z sorting issues with enemies being occluded behind derelicts, and perhaps 1 item in the wrong category? But that's literally it, which is insane. It does make one wonder what they might have been like given full attention for the whole jam.
I would have preferred a little more story, but I'm actually not sure what I would have had cut for that to happen. I feel also like I haven't appreciated the procgen enough for how tough that can be.
Really strong, and kept me entertained for a significant amount of time! Thank you.