Zebulon was a good cat. I’ll remember him. Wanted to play this for quite a while, am happy to finally get around to it.
I loved how interconnected that little world was. All the different routes really helped getting back to points of failure. And on subsequent run they allowed for some fun routing.
I am also really impressed with how smooth the controls are. It feels really polished and there were barely any moments which felt like the controlls failed me (except in the water), which I didn’t expect from a PICO-8 game.
I also love Zebulons animations. They look really fun and complement the character controller surprisingly well despite how chaotic they are. And the little animation for the end of every run is extremely well done. I just had to watch it to end off a run.
Something I only noticed on my later runs is just how neat the Overworld looks. Even if it is very small it has what I think are meant to be normal building, the rooftops on top, and a little Forest area with a lake.
The challenges for subsequent runs resulted in a really relaxing difficulty curve. With the last few ones having some actual challenge. My favourite were likely the Minit and Half Minit challenge. Those two work absolutely perfectly in such a small game.
I also wanna say that the music was a really fun listen. Especially the energetic part even if it was a little overly chaotic just felt great. i always tried jumping along with the melody, which did result in me missing some jumps because I was way too eagerly playing along with the music. But it was fun.