Oh no! I accidentally pressed No after dying as the game over screen appears so fast that I was still moving to the right and my input moved the cursor from Yes to No. Then I pressed Space and it confirmed leaving the game, losing all my progression. It would be nice to have a Resume game option in the main menu (we added it in our game in priority because I had so many issues with losing progression on mid-length jam games and didn’t finish many entries because of that)
Otherwise the game is really fun, I only unlocked one skill so far but was delighted to see it was actually two skills in one (Dash and Double Jump) using the same special bullet (clever!).
Having to reload it like normal bullets make sense, although it takes some time to get used to it (as opposed to other games where landing = reload double jump… it’s more common to have a cooldown for dash though).
Moving is fast and controls are tight, however player character could benefit from dynamic height jump (in one room you need to shoot an enemy just a little above the usual shot height, but you can’t hop, so you must either jump and immediately press shoot, or do the mandatory full jump and then shoot when going down). Air slowdown during shoot is however very useful (I have yet to add air attacks in our game but I’ll probably do something like that too).
Level-wise, the rooms are simple, easy to understand. However I wish they have one-way platforms because there are many places where you expect to jump from below and hit the platform like ceiling instead.
Story-wise it seems that some lore was thought ahead since the gun is said to be sentient, unfortunately this missed opportunity for gun talk jokes (there could be a small dialogue at the beginning and each time you pick an upgrade, to introduce both explanation of the skill and some gag). The thumbnail itself is very comical already.
Anyway I’ll rate the game after I finish the demo to be sure I’m rating the metroidvania progression well too, or if there’s any boss at the end.