What an incredibly strange and surreal game. Feels like the kind of thing I’d hear about through a Jacob Geller video or something, not just find in a MVM. Those are all compliments, by the way!
Is there an actual ending, or is the “thank you for playing” note about as far as you can get? If so, I got there, though I was missing a few collectables.
Technically, this is a marvel. This has great animation work for the size, with the dynamic way it adjusts to slopes and speed changes, and details like the character’s hand touching the walls, the smear frames on the dash. And 320 kB! I can’t even imagine how this was possible.
I did get stuck trying to find the first item (had to look at another comment where you explained it, haha) and then spent quite some time looking for progress once I got the dash on the roof. It can be very easy to miss things due to all the darkness, it is a very confusing little world, but in a way, that only adds to the strange dream-like atmosphere.
One of the most interesting applications of “minimalist” I’ve seen, very impressive!