Thanks for the love! I really put a lot of effort into making everything seem cutesy and right in context, I mostly was inspired by Mother 3 and the way Mother 4/Oddity does it’s sprites.
And yeah! it’s intentional! I was playing around with transformations and i made the levels slightly tilted, which was something i reeeeally hated until i started adding things to them and then it felt like it clicked, it made everything look weird and uneven yet interesting and just a fun little thing to experiment with.
And yes, the “emptiness” of everything is also intentional, i wanted the player to solely focus on exactly what i was trying to convey with the design of each stage, alongside making it very square so it felt like some sort of weird comic strip or some sort of square-ish institution, like a hospital, but very crooked and weird. (fun drinking game, take a shot everytime you read me say “weird” and “but”)
And about the last paragraph, yes! i will try it right now :) (though i have some faaaaaint little sense of dejavu looking at the cover so i feel like i MIIGHT have played it already lol)
Thanks for commenting on my game! it’s really something that gives me the strength to continue this game after-jam :D