Man, thank you so much! It really means a lot! I'm glad I've finally found someone who understands and likes the gameplay and can zoom through the level! While I may have not played what people consider games of this genre I definitely have played fast paced platforming games and love them! I'm glad my level layout was fun to exploit, even I stuck to the main path quite hard so I do wonder how insane skips can get. While visuals did get rushed I feel as though of all the games to be untextured this vibe somewhat works and I'm glad I picked the right colors with post processing and ambient lighting!
This is certainly a game I can picture getting a proper game version, the hourglass/sand vibe is cool and is why the game is named "Time Flies" but I certainly want other levels that have their own design style, my point being the hourglass made sense to flip when you reach the very top but maybe making level flipping something more common and can happen multiple times throughout one level (without looping back on yourself) sounds really cool. I really like the move set myself (I didn't even add nearly as much game juice as I wanted and it still feels good) so I do want to make the most of it one day! I agree that some shorter levels could really help create dense but well thought out levels that could be done in seconds with cool skips!
Yeah, you're spot on with the UI and lack of a tutorial, next jam I'll have a much better understanding of pacing and should hopefully have more time to do far better UI to go along with better explanations of the game within the game and not just the itch page.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it and got to experience the game the way I intended it to be played, I was losing hope in the game but you saved that, so thank you so much! (of course everyone's feedback is very well deserved and includes things I'll take into account later).
THANK YOU!!!