Loved the music and visuals. The cinematic opening was a fun surprise.

I like the fast run. There’s something satisfying about sprinting through these large, illustrated environments with parallax scrolling. I didn’t finish the game, but I am curious to learn more about its world.

I think the rest of the controls would benefit from another pass. I recommend giving the player full control when they jump. The way the character drifted after you hit a direction midair felt strange to me, and made the platforming especially difficult. The attacks, too, were hard for me to use. I think the character would’ve benefited from a larger hit box and an air attack.

All in all, I think this is a fantastic start to a game, if you choose to continue it. And if not, I look forward to seeing what else your team creates.

The amount of work put into this game is truly amazing.. art, sound, and voice acting all stood out.

I did run into a bug where I was able to jump infinitely, and at times the direction wasn’t very clear, so I wasn’t always sure where to go.
That said, overall you guys did a great job!

Nooo, I want to save the girlfriend!😭 The opening cutscene and voice acting were lovely, and the UI and menus looked very polished (big props for control customization!), but the gameplay definitely needs a bit of work!

The music is nice and the graphics look great, especially on the level backgrounds, but the main character and enemies look a bit zoomed out and thin compared to everything else. The attack animation is cool, but the range is very short, and I think it'd be nice to be able to attack while jumping, or have some way to aim up or do an uppercut attack, as it's very hard to deal with flying (swimming?) enemies without getting hit.

I'm also not sure if the game is supposed to take place underwater, but the movement doesn't feel very "underwater" to me. I think a bit more jump time and lower gravity could help sell the underwater theme better, if that was the intention. I'd also have appreciated a bit more air control while jumping, because landing on the 1-tile wide platforms is very hard (or just make the platforms bigger). When dying or trying to load a save, my character ends up stuck inside a wall.

Still, the demo is nice and the story looks very intriguing, good job!

The presentation of this game is absolutely stellar, especially the whole fully voiced intro. Of the more finished areas, the spritework and graphics are incredibly well done, especially Brooke. I also appreciated that there was actually music! And I felt like the theme usage was great, the overall feel of the game would be entirely different without it. Now, it is mentioned in the description that it’s more of a prototype, so the lack of polish isn’t too surprising, the only major movement gripe I have is how hard it is to land precisely on a platform, Brooke seems to carry a lot of momentum in the air and especially where there were narrow platforms I had tons of trouble trying to land on them. Beyond that, movement was solid. The attack hitbox also seemed unclear and the inability to attack in air made the flying enemies really annoying, and since the projectile can’t hit grounded enemies or flying enemies it felt kinda meaningless. And it’s been mentioned by other commenters, but some enemies being right on transitions was definitely a little mean. That all being said, I do see potential in it, and I’m really happy to see there’s plans to continue working on it following the jam.

The opening sequence was so cool, I see a lot of effort put into the art. The platforming is somewhat a boss fight in itself. 
Overall not too shabby.