If you try to press play with multiple buttons at the start, the game breaks down completely and starts breaking up and eventually it will scream in pain, which is obviously something way too specific and im not going to remove points for finding it out, but it is definitely something very funny that i found when trying to play with a controller.

The slashing towards bubbles was a little finicky, it got a little used to do, not as tight as the obvious inspiration, but it’s an understandable difference, considering this is a gamejam game and Specter of Torment took a couple of years to make. Nonetheless it was fine, cool idea.

Some walls being flat and some other walls having the rock texture shading made me think i was supposed to go through the flat ones. (Edit: Ah, i learnt what is the difference in walls)

After a while i learnt that i could dash through enemies, that should have been made more clear, i only learnt about it when once i accidentally went through one.

somehow, after obtaining the hover powerup, i got it with ZERO hover energy, making me able to use it only once until i quit and saved back, and then i got to use it once every time before i had to close the game and opened again, until i got a mana powerup, luckily i could talk to the dev in discord and found a hot fix.

Also yeah somehow the music didn’t loop sometimes.

I like the style, the gameplay was cool but idk for me it lags heavily, but i like the visual style, its simple but effective, the diagonal slash was a bit clunky but thats honestly a skill issue from me, anyways cool game good job!

I appreciated the unconventional upgrades and mechanics, the move set was strange and enjoyable. I do wish the eel enemies were a little more satisfying to fight, having them make use of the diagonal slash mechanic makes sense, but they ended up being more annoying than anything. Similarly, I wish the calculation for the slash angle of the eels and bubbles was weighted more towards the bottom of the player, it always felt like I had to be a lot lower than I would have liked to get an upwards slash. Other than that, everything felt responsive.

For the minimal visuals and sound, I think the game does a good job presenting an atmosphere, at least while playing I could imagine being some sort of mermaid princess trying to save her dying world or something similar (are you even a mermaid or just a ghost?)

Sweet little game, thought it is quite simple

The atmosphere is very nice, it already sets the mood right on the main menu wich is awesome. I also love the backgrounds, they look very grand and vast, that's a very pretty sea.
The music also makes everything feel a little more melancholic wich I love, and I had a hard time following the melody in my own tempo, wich is interesting (Altought I do wish it was a little more memorable)

The metroidvanianess of it is very good too, with a lot of little corners and secret passages to find, I had to actually back track from the top of the tower since I missed nearly half of the collectibles when getting there the first time,  and even after doing so I still couldn't find the last flight upgrade, wich is good! MVs should have missable content!
There is one room on the map with an opening on the ceiling wich I was very dissapointed that it didn't lead anywhere, but it's always funny getting out of bounds (I also wonder if there is something at all right above the Witch of unfinished content... with 2 flight levels I was just baaaareeelly out of reach from the top of the screen...
I also really like the little bit of non-euclidean-ism on some of the rooms, it's always such a trippy delight when metroidvanias have these x)
There was also a wall right behind one of these upgrades that was unmarked, but when I hit it I actually managed to break it, however I think I broke it from the wrong side since the tiles that were actually keeping me from entering it stayed there lol (And I didn't find the wayt to reach it from the other side, sadje)

I think that's kind of all I have to comment tho, the rest of the gameplay is super minimalistic....
(I did love the cameo of the witch of unfinished content tho)

Visuals are really simple. The sea background is pretty though. The player character's flowing ponytail also looks nice. 

All the upgrades and expansions share the same sprite, which was confusing (although that didn't really matter much).

There's only one music track. It's neat, but that's all there is. I would've liked if there was at least maybe an ambient track for those dark areas. I think it would've improved the atmosphere.

It was funny to me how similar the abilities are to those in Spector of Torment. Nearly identical, in fact. On one hand, it's not exactly super original... but on the other hand Spector of Torment is really good, so I didn't have much of a problem with it. Plus, it’s a Metroidvania instead of a level-based platformer, which also makes things feel different.

There's a bit of jank in some places though:

- The direction of the... homing slash (not sure what to call it) felt a bit less reliable than Specter of Torment (although I may be misremembering). 

- You can phase into enemies when using the homing slash, causing you to take damage. This made me avoid going into the air and instead just attack staying grounded, which felt kinda bad imo. Specter of Torment had you bounce off of enemies instead, which not only avoided that issue but was also pretty fun to do in and of itself. Although, there are probably other ways to solve the issue that don't just involve doing what Specter of Torment did.

Also found a couple exploits:

- If you use the wall climb ability to run up off the edge of a wall and then press jump within a certain window after leaving the wall, you'll gain a bunch of height. It's a cool trick, but seems unintentional.

- You can spam the shift button with the float ability to stay in the air for a really long time. This one feels a little too cheesy, although that wasn't very relevant for anything (outside of being able to skip certain parts of a room when backtracking) since it was the last upgrade.

Also, it's not a big deal but there's no controller support, and I don't tend to like playing 2D platformers on a keyboard as much.

The reused witch bit was funny (even if there wasn't a more fitting ending). Item completion percentage is appreciated. Got 100%

Neat game.

Really solid! Because of what I’ll mention at the end, my save file bricked and I wasn’t able to get particularly far, only to the Lost Village, but I liked the overall feel of the game, my only real complaint about the core movement is the jump just feeling a little lacking. I really liked the… aerial slash, that’s the best name I can come up with for it (lol), while I feel it’s a little finicky since you need to make sure you’re below it if you’re trying to go up and make sure you’re on the correct side of it, it’s not super hard to adjust to and mostly only gets in your way if you’re going too fast. That said, sections where you had to use it on enemies did really frustrate me, mainly because it seemed like sometimes you wouldn’t be able to slice through an enemy without taking damage, other times you would, so trying it with low health could be punishing, and if you accidentally killed the enemy, you’d need to completely reload the room to try again. As far as presentation goes, the music really stood out to me, I felt like it added a lot to the vibe of the game, and the visuals (though a bit dark at times) were all around well done.

I somehow managed to get into a glitched state where the game wasn’t loaded past a black screen, and then the pause menu appeared twice, after which the game just stuck at a solid black screen. This happened when I tried to quickly quit and reload my file, and afterwards my file refused to load.

Great game! It was a bit sad to see the witch in that state, but the game length is just right to get a taste of it and not to get bored.

The art style is very good, I love the hair effect (can't imagine how long it took to make ¦3). The glowing effect and the lighting are great, and seeing how the scene changes as you go outside was very pleasant.

Sometimes I'd wish to have that "swish" move (where did I see it? The Messenger? Ori? great implementation!) on a different button from attack, but it is easy to get used to ¦3