I just wanna say that this game is amazing.
I love it's cute style and the gameplay really feel like an action platformer from the 2000s and i love it, makes me feel like a kid again.
The characters are cute and the amount a destructible objects in the environment really goes to show how much attention to detail the developer put into this game.
The world itself is cute and highly unique and imaginative.
The dash is fun to mess around with as well.
The music is fun and upbeat to listen to as well.
And although a few challenges were difficult to get through (Especially the final mountain climbing challenge.) it wasn't too impossible and is able to be managed just fine.
My only complaints is that those flying jester enemies can be too difficult sometimes and sometime fly too high away and if they're defeated too high then the crystals they drop are too far out of reach. I was lucky enough that there was a ledge near by i could dash off of to get to it.
There's also a glitch where the camera keeps rotating around Willow when a DualShock 5 controller is plugged into my PC. Not the first time a 3D platformer on Itch.io has this issue and i find that strange, i wonder why that happens.
But on that topic, DualShock 5 support would be nice.
There should also be an option in the menu to quit the game as well as a pause screen with said quit option as well, but i'm sure that the dev is working on that and it will be available next update.
All in all, it's a fun, pleasant experience and i will be following both this game and the developer CornflowerBlue from now on as i know they will deliver good stuff in the future and i'll be sure to check out his other games later today as of writing this review.
Keep up the good work. I don't know who Ludum Dare 52 is but i know they love this as well.
Thank you so much CornflowerBlue, thank you.
Despite all the issues i listed with this game it's not enough for me to not love it so i still give it five stars!