this game beat my ass... and i just kept going back for more. fun!

-dustin

Art looks good and the gameplay is nice, The pogo jump is bit difficult but get use to it after a few tries, also I think the dash should be trigger when the key is press not on release. I also notice that the character falls faster after dashing.
Not sure if this is intended but the third door just brings me back to the main menu.
The audio in the boss battle continues to play after losing.
would be nice to have coyote time.
And lastly after the tutorial level I think players should respawn in the door room.
Other than that I think you did a good job :D

I've played both released versions (the originally uploaded to the jam and the fixed version), but I realied mostly on the newer one, so, my comments will be regarding that one.

The game has an immensly appealing artstyle and vibe to it, with its use of pixel-art, and the world and enemies' design is also very interesting. The combat itself is also fun.

However, there are some issues to be addressed:

• No checkpoints or health recovery prompts, which makes restarting the whole game kind of bothersome...
• ... especially when the navigation gameplay sometimes gets not so intuitive, like with the obstacle courses or the POGO jumps.
• On the "Defend Crystals" level, the stereo (left-right) perception of enemies' position is sorta missing, as it could help in asserting where they are and helping on clearing the level without so much difficulty
  

In any case, this game's Game Design is excellent, and shows a lot of potential. Congrats!!

Love the art style! I found a bit hard to get used to the controls but once I got them it was such a fun entry to play. Great job!!!

I love your art style for this game, a great meld of pixel graphics with glow lighting really makes it pop. As people have mentioned I has a bit of difficulty with the movement (mainly the pogo jump) but I can see you have updated a version below ;) Really great game, amazing work!

art looks great! movement is a little bit too hard for me to get through the level reliably though.

This is really great game.It is almost a complete game if you add more weapon,map and enemy.But this is a game make only 1 week so it is the best game i ever try in this jam :D.5 star point for you
And also if you have time ,pls play and vote for my game .I need some more to win :D

The visual are great the controls feel very stiff.  Having the horizontal movement have a fixed speed instead of acceleration and the slashes coming out faster will make the playing experience more fluid in my opinion. Amazing game nonetheless!!

Art and sounds are impressive but you should make tutorial a bit easier in my opinion, because the "platformer" part of your game is not really enjoable to play tbh, the gravity acceleration is too high and that delay before attacks and dashes feels a bit annoying. But anyway the game is great and you definetly shold not stop!

I like the art, and the boss fight and wave fight was fun. I always lose at wave fight, it say "portail destroyed" or something like that but it seems like enemies keep coming and it's too hard to hold, when I want to attack an enemy wich is attacking my crystal, and there others enemies in the attack hitbox, it will focus in priority the others enemies..

The controls are not enough responsive for platforms levels, when you only do one click with left and right key, your character doesn't move, it need some times to move at a certains distance.

I gave up doing the jump and down attack, it's to hard to hit the hitbox and then jump where you want. Hopefully I could crossed with dash and spam attack to have air time.

-When I die, the last sound play in loop (mostly happened with the boss), had to quit the game to stopped it.

Also, the level where you were dead kill you when you open the door. Also had to quit the game to fixed it.

I really liked the art and the sound! The gameplay was a bit difficult to pick up at first but I got the hang of it eventually! While others have suggested changing the controls, my suggestion would be to put the player in a safe space to learn them. Maybe wait to have lives kick in until after the player gets through that area.

The green belt section was TOUGH and I loved the crystal waves.

Nice work and congrats on finishing!

If you do get a chance to play Untangled it would really help us, we're just 3 away from the threshold at this point. Thanks!

I suffered with the controls and responsiveness, the theme of the jam didn't feel very developed, but I loved the sound and art, the enemies looked cool and the main character was enigmatic!

I was stuck on the tutorial for quite some time. couldnt make that second jump without dashing. but the art and music is really good, the boss sound effect is so creppy it even scared me the first time. But the sound didnt stop playing after i died, which was too easy to do imo

So the art and atmosphere was on point. I do have to say that controls felt a bit delayed almost. Like sometimes I would hit dash and it wouldn't dash for like half a second and I'd fall into a pit or onto spikes. The timing for the down attack to bounce was also weirdly tight. I was at the wall behind the second door for far too long trying to hit the bulb just right to bounce high enough. I do think this is a good start and I can really feel your inspiration. I'd love to see what you could do with some more time into something like this.

wish gamedesign was more concrete. like what the point of defending crystal if you got jumping mechanics which level design isnt using? definetely, maybe i needed to play a more to see its usage, but it was very confusing for me to get some tower defense after tutorial. another example comes to my head: 1 lvl mob-head die from 2 hits, but time difference between making 1 or 2 attack is not too big to put it in game. i guess there is just no really big time delay between attacks. also there is two spawners from two side when you could just use one side for spawner and other for base. more fighting, less walking. but its got very good stuff i appreciate. you got the clear target what to do in it lmao! even though i am making mostly confusing as possible game for player to make it unbeatable puzzle in terms of gameplay/story/aesthetics for boring people i still happy i am not the only human being alive

That boss fight was quite the challenge :D Great pixel art style and music in the game! The gameplay is good, but it took some getting used to the timings. Overall a nice package!

I wished the controls weren't so hard because the art is so good and I very much wanted to experience more. Anyway, it's put together well, but needs some fine tuning. Good work. 

I appreciate that the assets were made from scratch and some of the designs are really fun, but the difficulty is a bit weird. For example I never managed to do the initial parkour part reliably. The delay on the pogo jump is so large and the dash seems to just straight up not work from time to time. Hollow Knight had similar movement (I assume the pogo jump and the directional attacks were inspired by that), but there the movement was instantaneous, so you could reliably parry off spikes and such. I think having to go through the initial room so many times soured my experience a bit. The eye themes boss had a really cool design, and the sounds effects are nice.

your Game is Frustrating man. i was falling for 30 min.