WOW!! Holy crap this is amazing. The palette, the art, music, sfx, animations and feel....so so good!! Feels so great on controller too. I think with just a couple tweaks, you have a very shippable game on your hands. Which is pretty remarkable for a jam. If you could map to mobile controls somehow, I'd even play something like this on ios. I'm so blown away by how polished everything feels.
Here are couple notes that I think would fix a couple issues I had:
- For some reason the start screen doesn't work with controller. So you have to switch from controller in hand to hit the spacebar everytime. (And you have to do this every time you die currently).
- Every time you die, you watch the entire intro again. Yikes. This was the biggest one that brought the game down for me. It's such a fun fast paced scroller, that I want to just restart quickly when I die. This is a small tweak, but would make it feel that much better. (I would play it a lot longer too).
- I would up the damage on the spray can a lot. It feels so neat to spray, but the amount of damage it does is SO low. Right now it felt like 5-6 hits. I would make that 1-2 max. Especially when you are forced to move up so quickly, you don't have time to spray enemies. It would make it feel like a nice little move if it almost insta-killed.
I think with those couple tweaks, this would easily be 5 stars for me on all categories. Really incredible work!
Oh.. and that title screen... wow. Looks so good.