Really well considered package. There's a lot in here! You did a great job. You got the retro difficulty right too, it was pretty tough until I got into the swing :D 

really cool game, overall the design is really nice including the music. i liked the way the control points work but i failed on the jumps quite alot. Controls are always a bit nifty and people should be able to adapt as long as it's consistent so i blame it on my inability to control the character :D

The art and the animations are awesome!

The gameplay is smooth, the controls are responsive, and I think it has the correct level of challenge in itself to keep the player playing. The puzzles were well-made and I enjoyed every minute of playing this game. Adored it!

Excellent job!

I loved the art. Impressive how you could manage so expressive movement and forms into this small space.

Musics fits in just on the spot for the theme.

Edit: I forgot to mention that some platforms "feels" wrong 'cause the character jump is more like a cinematic platformer jump.

Phenomenal achievement, looks and sounds great and tons of fun to play. 

Loved playing this! The pixel art is stunning, and gameplay works quite well. I got frustrated with jumping, and didn't manage to finish it, but I'll probably come back after the rating period to play this with a bit more time. Amazing stuff, no idea how you both got it all done in the time frame.

Very nice overall! Love the visual style! Animation work is very smooth. The no-air-control jumps are fine, except when you're right up against 1 block jump, then it's kind of funky cuz you need to back away to get to momentum to jump over the block... Mounting small walls might be a nice fix...

Anyway, great job overall yall!

Let me get this out of the way, cuz I'm sure you already know this: this art is fantastic. absolutely did a great job with the space, and I'm surprised a game with solid black background can have this much visual depth. This was a very pleasant game to look at.

The mirrors are both helpful and frustrating. They serve the role of a checkpoint, but if you don't wait for them to stop being inactive to actually use them again you die and return to the beginning. However I see now that this game was going for this bit of risk and reward with this and I think overall you did a good job. However, it took me a long time to ever encounter the mirror running out of revival time, so mayb that needs to be lessened a bit and make them instantly activate again when you revive as well as whenever you feel like click on one.

The platforming was entertaining as i really like platformers, however the game doesn't allow you to change your trajectory mid-jump. that would be fine, except that the game also requires lots of precision jumps. It feels like you were a bit inspired by jump king with this one. This is up to a developer to choose and for a player to decide if they like of course, and I respect that you did it the way that you wanted to with it. That's cool. Don't stop doing that. I also feel like something might be up with the hitboxes. The character feels substantially wider and their feet seems to clip on things. If the character is an unskilled person, that makes a lot of sense, but if they are agile and skilled (not sure if this is what you were trying to communicate) then their feet wouldn't clip, they'd make the jump.  Because of the platforming feeling a bit "clunky" (again not a bad thing if that's what you're going for, and I have no room to act like mine doesn't also feel somewhat clunky) some of the sections I was feeling less like "oh i can't wait to beat this part!" and more like "when will i beat this part?" I hope that distinction makes sense. Again this is very much the kind of feeling some games want to generate. I'm not privy to you r design doc. EDIT: I would like to agree with the other commenters that when I did land the difficult jumps successfully, multiple times in a row, it was very satisfying.

To me, it feels like this game is begging to be turned into a game divided into numbered levels with a door you have to reach (maybe find and reach) but that aren't too long, where the challenge comes from different things depending on the level. Kind of like portal 2 i guess, which sometimes asks you to solve a hard puzzle and other times asks you to use the gun quickly and accurately. If that makes sense.

regardless this game does a fantastic job with it's art and music, the animations are great. and the platforming sections themselves are interesting and pose new challenges, especially with the difficulties provided by the "clunkiness" of the jumping i discussed above. I hope to see you develop this project further as I'd like to see what direction you choose to take with it, whether that be making it a "smoother" platformer with "tighter" controls, or if you lean heavy into the risk-reward gameplay, as both direction still offer lots of freedom to make it your own. Please update me (here or in our discord) if and when you update the game :) Hope some of this feedback was helpful.

(I did beat the game btw. good stuff! Great job on finishing it!)

It is indeed a pleasure to control and watch Guatemoc. The music is also a bop. The fixed jump length makes it very fun and enjoyable when you land a correct jump. 

Amazing job!

Looks great - excellent sprite work and audio. Character feels fluid and comfortable to control.

Some of the platforming is definitely precise. Trying to nail the jumps onto those lava columns got me.

Nicely done!

Really awesome entry! My only minor complaint is that you have to recollect a checkpoint every time after you die, I would occasionally forget and have to restart lol. Overall I really loved this game, nice job!

What a great game.

Very well done graphics, it is indeed a pleasure to control Guatemoc (it's also fun to wiggle its sprite while on the ladders :P ) 

The game is fun, even though I'm not the best player for puzzle platformers, I tend to love more action. It is a bit slow on restarting but that's not necessarily a bad thing, it gives more atmosphere.

I can feel the attention to detail you put in the game. Good job :D

This was a fun entry! I like how the playable area isn't too big, so any backtracking is very small. I wish those mirrors at least saved a checkpoint automatically when you pass it, for death is easy to come by and means a restart. Thankfully it was short enough to not be any major issue and I just learned use every mirror I came by, even after a respawn. I love the graphics btw, very readable and pretty to look at! Very well done!

The palette choice and the brilliant music give this a really atmospheric feel, I love it. The movement of the character feels really good, the lack of momentum and the pause when you land give it a nice weighty feel, a refreshing change from a lot of platformers that have a similar feel. The whole thing reminds of cinematic platformers like Flashback. Love it. :)

Absolutely incredible entry - well done!

Love the visuals and the music, it felt smooth to explore the world and the puzzles were really well made!

Impressive animations given the constraints! I liked how heavy the character feels and how the jumps are only about timing, though it took me some time to get used to it. I didn't realize you could just wait at checkpoints to get your mirror back, I thought you had to go to the next checkpoint to get it back which made the game a bit more challenging :)

I also found a bug where I got stuck inside walls while climbing a ladder, I couldn't find a way to get back to the previous checkpoint and had to restart the game.

Cool game. Fun to explore the world. I love the main character animations!

Awesome aesthetic, I like the controls and animations as well. Was a bit challenging to figure out which button starts the game at first, since the graphic looks like an O but it's Z actually.