This is one of my favorite games I've played so far in this jam, you really understood the assignment.  

This game is juicy, everything seems to have an animation and sound associated with it, the movement feels really good.  I particularly love your grapple, it shows you put a lot of time into it.  Not only can it bring you places, but you stick where you land, if can be used to pull enemies, or even pull you towards the boss.  Fantastic.  I really liked that the boss could also grapple and dash just like you.  Great animations and art style, glowing praise from me awesome work for such a short amount of time. 

I think the only piece of criticism I have is at first it was hard to tell what pieces of wood were part of the foreground and you could run through, and what ones had a hitbox to block you.  I realized they're a different color after a bit, but some more clarity on that somehow would be good. 

Great game! I really like the Aesthetic & the music is good throughout the demo. The combat feels good & the needle grapple is interesting. I really like the addition of shortcuts similar to dark souls. I only had a couple issues with certain enemies. It was hard to read when the throwing enemies would attack. Also, I found an AI exploit to corner the final boss and noticed it was a very damage spongey.

Very cool entry! With a little experimentation the needle dash combos became very fun to combo and travel around the area with. It made me be strategic with the movement, yet felt encouraging and fun. Very cute MC too, and the movement feels very smooth and reactive. I was really enjoying it and it feels well-developed. Unfortunately, in the 2nd locked room the game crashed from this error: 

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ERROR in

action number 1

of Destroy Event

for object obj_blobspawner:

Unable to find instance for object index 131368

at gml_Object_obj_blobspawner_Destroy_0

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gml_Object_obj_blobspawner_Destroy_0 (line -1)

gml_Object_obj_blobspawner_Collision_dmy_wall (line -1)

*Still an excellent prototype and very enjoyable! Just wanted to report this to help with bug fixes. Keep up the awesome work!

Nice game!

I loved the little mouse character, the design is very cute and it's well animated. So are the enemies. I liked the whole thread-and-needle aesthetic that runs through the game.

I had a bit more trouble with the environment as I just wasn't always sure at the beginning what was solid and what I would be going through. I was a bit lost at times and I think a map would have really helped. There was a switch and a nice shortcut at some point, which I appreciate.

I also really appreciated the extensive tutorialization, which is always nice for a jam game.

The thread-and-needle was so nice it did overshadow the dash to the point I forgot I had it. I only remembered it near the end, but I like how you can chain the two moves. I loved that I could grab enemies into spikes!

But I did have a few frustrations with the combat. I felt the reach of the needle to be too short. I was often trading blows with enemies, unsure how to avoid damage. I also think the pogo would feel better and be more useful it if launched you just a bit higher in the air.

It took me most of the game to understand the red gauge and the bottle sound effect you hear sometimes. I think it restores one HP, but I'm still not really sure...? I also suspect the additional red thingies were "Piece of Hearts", but I only found two so I could never confirm that.

The boss fight at the end of the game was very well done. It had interesting moves and clear telegraphed attacks. After a while I could avoid them and then grapple myself toward it for a few punishing hits, which is a very satisfying thing to do. But it went on too long and overstayed its welcome a bit.

On a similar note, the gamepad controls were also a bit strenuous for me, with the jump on A and the grapple on Y. I did most of the platforming with an uncomfortable "claw" grip.

But overall it was pretty fun! If it's a demo, the full game has a lot of potential ;)

I love the 4-way attack. I implemented that, too :D
I like the visuals very much, but at times it is hard to see which block is in the foreground and which in the background.

The move where you shoot the blue yarn and then cling to a wall is awesome. 
The fights were a little too unforgiving for me, though. But I am also not good at Hollow Knight. So take that with a grain of salt.

Also, a map would be nice.

Overall very good job. And you made it in only 13 days. That's impressive.

P.S.: the music rocks

I really enjoyed this - the character is really endearing and I love the little pitter patter footsteps. 

My main point of feedback would be around the control scheme. It's sort of unusual to use J/K/L so my fingers weren't very used to it. Also because space is jump but also skips dialogue, I kept skipping dialogue by mistake. Regardless though, this felt really polished.