holy cow this is one of the greatest Metroidvanias on this website - and I’ve played them all! Absolutely perfect game, love the level design. So cool you managed to incorporate a map on pico-8! Loved the abilities and just the pacing was masterful. Please keep making Metroidvanias!
edit - just realized you also made menerva-324 which is one of my GOTYs. Incredible. You gotta make a full scale project and get it on steam, easy day one buy and I’ll convince many others to check it out