Have you heard of the Robotech games? This game reminded me a lot of them! The retrofuturistic robots, the half-man-half-plane design of the mech, the giant booster rockets and tracking missiles, and most importantly, that sensation of feeling completely and totally lost for the first half and then getting it in the second half, haha!
I really like the parkour feeling of going off ramps and skating on walls, that feels great. And I like that you can rotate your camera around and strafe as you shoot. The controls are overall just very fluid and work really well. Just kinda fun to push buttons in this game, which is always good.
Actually getting to the boss enemy took significantly longer than killing it, I think because it's running forwards at all times even when you're playing around and testing the movement at the start of the game. Once you get ahead of the boss and skate backwards, it basically can't do damage to you at all and becomes just a hitbox to shoot at. I think it should maybe wait until you get within a certain distance before it starts moving so you don't get punished for trying out what the controls are, especially since these controls are more complex than most in the jam.