Great job! I thought the pacing was perfect, with the visuals and text having exactly the right amount of detail. All the elements felt harmonious, and it made the overall experience remarkably cohesive.

One technical note: When I tried to fullscreen the game, it stayed at the same resolution with a large black border to the right and bottom of the game window. I switched back to windowed mode, but because of the resolution the itch.io info bars overlapped the top right of the game window. They actually covered up the heart in the top right of the speech bubble stage. Took me a while to notice, but eventually I figured it out.

An incredible game! The core mechanic is a simple one used to great effect which I always like to see! My favourite aspect has to be the way the text is displayed throughout

This is a beautiful and well crafted game! like visually stunning! 
I did feel that it was a little vague and  not obvious what you are supposed to be doing, (but that may be intentional?) so found myself struggling a lot, and it took me a few go's to get anywhere.  But the little friends all bopping about was cute :)

I really loved this. There’s something about the sort of bleak background art and the warm and hopeful music that just feels cathartic. It’s beautifully drawn and scored. Some of the levels felt like a bit of a struggle to navigate - but the fact that having more little friends made it so much easier is just chef’s kiss.

The palette too looks fantastic.

This is gorgeous, I love the art! The gameplay felt really nice, too, especially the little dots bouncing after my cursor. The game mechanics and the story also just tie together so nicely. I really enjoyed playing this!

Loved the art, the game looks really good and it was fun to play and a good experience.

Wow, I really enjoyed this! Everything was coming together really well: art, music, story and gameplay :)

It's always impressive to me when jam games feel so 'complete'. Great job!

This is so wholesome and wonderful. I love the art and the game mechanic of collecting little friends to follow around each other. Overall It is an expressive and relatable experience, you did such a great job.

Awww this was so heartwarming!! This had a full narrative arc that was really just a joy to play through.  The art is fantastic, and the music and sounds definitely enhanced the experience. The credits page was great as well, with the messages you reveal. This is really just a fantastic game jam game all around. Enjoyed the sorta squeaking sound of the characters especially, and the way the messages showed up over time, building the story in a way where I wasn't sure what would happen next. 

I did find it slightly tricky to get used to the controls at first, since I first thought it was just point and click and didn't make the connection to the little creature I was controlling. Then it took me a while to figure out I had to hold and press to interact with/move some things.  For a while I thought I was just stuck in the cage 😅 (though that maybe was the intention? To feel hopeless at first?). 

Great job!

It's well made. congrats! beautiful messages!

your game and and the other submission https://patricemp.itch.io/pieces made me think hard about "Does strength really come from the heart?"

Wow this game is simply wonderful. I love your art style and the whole story. Speech bubble stage is awesome

Great job!

Really cool to see this developed with all the extra levels and art after playing your prototype early on!

I love the speech bubble stage :) Really great work!!