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The sound and graphics for this are so goooood. I love the stylised yellow blood splatter in particular. I managed to grapple one of the big guys while falling down a long drop, and the spray on the walls seemed weirdly fitting - is the blood actually a cluster of objects that “splat” when they hit a surface? It’s also really good to finish off with a solid boss battle: suddenly having grapple act as a way of exploiting an opening rather than just an insta-kill was very satisfying, especially because the fight was so intuitive.

I feel as though the main areas fo improvement here are the story and theme. The tagline in the cover image is “rise against control,” but then the ending tells me I’ve “controlled the gym and saved the couples” (after fighting to control levels/areas throughout) so that feels a bit muddled. Unless I missed something at the beginning, it could perhaps do with a little scene that establishes what’s going on before jumping into gameplay. (Also, though the tutorial text works very well, it says “Hold C to jump higher” when the jump key is Z.) But that’s all basically just polishing - the game itself is hugely impressive, especially for the time available during the jam.

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Thank you for your feedback! About the blood effect, I simply used an object that has multiple animations for the blood effect. The animations will get randomized when they are generated upon hitting or killing an enemy. Well actually I didn't design the blood to be yellow... It's just that I suppose this game jam wouldn't allow too much gore. Sadly there is no normal mapping in gdevelop, so the blood effect would look super weird when there is no wall in the background. 

I made a silly mistake before exporting XP I forgot to set the menu scene as the starting scene, so yes, the opening and objectives are omitted. You have to die at least once to see the full introduction. About the theme though, I meant to create some sort of paradox here: you have to rise against the control of the bad guys by taking control over them. I did over-scoped the project. I actually thought of adding a bunch of dialogue before the boss fight to emphasize the theme of "take control", like in mgs where you have a twenty minute long political debate before a boss fight XP I'll try manage time and scale more wisely next time.

Ah! That makes sense - it did feel as though there must have been something in there because I figured otherwise you would have gone with a different end screen. I did make it through without dying myself. The difficulty felt reasonable, though: there were a couple of occasions where I started to get swarmed and had to leg it!