I dig the anime vibes here. Story was engaging and captured my interest right away, I wanted to find out more about Trout. Unfortunately, I could not get to Chrystollil because I couldn't get past the.. forgot the name of them creatures protecting their young. I gave it countless attempts and am pretty stumped.

The game mechanics were clean and tidy. Especially the grapple hook mechanic. The slowness of the gravity and character were a turn off though. But I am on a crappy laptop and did see the game lag, so it could just be my computer; In that case, the game just needs more optimization. It did take quite a while for it to startup as well, which was concerning.

Overall, you have something good here. 

Hello! Welcome to Feedback Quest 5!

Before I get into the meat of my feedback, I just wanna note that if you don't have save data and you hit Resume, it crashes.

I finally got further into the game. Ill Magma Trout is proving to be a lot of fun to follow! I honestly don't know if I have any feedback gameplay wise, though there is definitely lag in some things that should be addressed (especially around snails). Maybe an option to change keybinds too?

Levelling up, and the hook platforming bits were the best parts.  I wasn't particularly fond of the character, and found them to be a bit offputting.  The tone and writing just makes it come off pretty negatively and made it difficult for me to connect with the main character.  I also found it a little difficult at first to figure out where I was supposed to go as I went back to the previous stages a few time by accident.

I stopped right around the level with tons of spikes and the mushroom enemy.  One hit kill mechanics and punishing results from a missed jump rapidly sap out the fun and that was the breaking point for me.  The level design in general feels like a lot of jumping around on random platforms and I think it could be tweaked a bit to give a bit more overall direction.

I did enjoy the enemy design and their animations when injured.  

It's a really nicely done game, fun world, I enjoy the character, he has a very strong hot headed shonen vibe, I am just having some issues getting pass certain platform due to my lack of platforming skill I guess. I personally find switching commands a taaaag slow/janky due to animation not being able to cancel half way and switch via new input? It is also the same with enemy engagement, I could be wrong... I have played other platformers where controls felt more responsive to me then I know it's just me.