Incredible style and soul. All the animations and enemy (and Shrimpy) models look stellar. Feels like I'm playing Armored Core but as a shrimp. Found the intense warnings for fusing your elements pretty funny. I only played singleplayer but it seems there's a mutliplayer mode, too, where you power your Shrimpy up while fighting your friends. Seems like it might be similar to Kirby Air Ride.
Here are a few bugs and other things I took note of:
-Lots of issues with the controller not quite working in menus (PS5 Dualsense controller). Also couldn't move the camera with the right analog stick (I assume this would be where camera is mapped to on controller) once in-game, but seemed to be able to do most everything else (I switched to kbm without testing out all the controller inputs on my PS5 DS once I realized I couldn't move the camera)
-Am I retarded or wouldn't ascending lower your pressure? I understand how it works gameplay-wise I'm just being a nerd.
-Feel like dash action should be able to be spammed more. I was taking a while just to get through my energy trying to use it as often as possible. Would be nice to spam it in more dangerous situations.
-Could shoot through walls at enemies sometimes if I was close enough (mainly tried this on the Kelp Shrine boss and the thing clogging up the Volcano)
-Often got stuck or clipped a little bit into walls and got stuck when I was moving around close to them
-Wish picked up weapons didn't have their icons swap as you cycled through them. This is big personal preference though. It's easier for me to distinguish what I'm using when I just have things laid out in a line being highlighted as I cycle through them.
-In the volcano boss area I noticed the orb to return to the hub world appeared before the boss did; not sure if this was intentional or not
I stopped at the point you needed to find a pearl to talk to that one shrimp. Looked around the world a bit but was pretty confused on where I would need to go to find this pearl.
Overall great work though. The game's visuals have a ton of flare and the gameplay seems solid. Definite GMI energy!