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Very interesting game. Here's my review.

The Good:
The art-style is fun.
Clearly a ton of time was spent making this game look cool. The visual effects like chromatic aberration and shake make scenes have some pretty solid impact. 

The idea is solid.
A puzzle platformer with a solid story? Sign me up! The ideas here are really good. The execution could use some work though.

The Bad:
The controls can often feel sticky and not very fun.
The character will often get stuck on physics objects and fling around and the dash's length isn't clear for example.

No explanations.
Mechanics aren't explained well at all. For example the dash doesn't tell you what key to press. I had to press keys on my keyboard until I found the correct key.

The pixel art is serviceable, but could use some work. 
I saw a few cases of mixels, where pixel arts of different sizes are put together and it doesn't look the best. The game's style is wonderful! It just needs some touch ups here and there.

The Ugly:
The story is really badly presented.
The grammar is horrible and the way characters speak implies that they're insane. They jump from topic to topic without ever developing their character.  Characters will randomly swear for no clear reason. I'm not against swearing (I do it all the time lol) but in this case it doesn't fit. You even say at one point that this is a kids game. The scene with the fish and text to speech was funny, but it came out of nowhere. There's no text to speech anywhere else in the game. 

I would strongly recommend getting someone to proof read your dialogue.


FINAL THOUGHTS:
You 110% have something here. You just need to spend time cleaning up what you have. I recommend reading up on game design and game feel (juice). Take what you have and polish it to the best of your abilities. 

I can't wait to see where this goes. Good work so far! <3 <3

Glad you liked it! Yeah the game's pretty tough lol.

Thank you for playing!

Very strange. Thank you for the details! It's very much appreciated.

It took a lot of research to make the levels. Level design is hard lol.  Thank you for playing!

Glad you liked it! Old school is still cool haha. Thanks for playin!

Weird, it should only effect graphical quality and not input. Thank you for playin! I'll look into it <3

Haha yeah the game gets pretty tough pretty quick. More levels to introduce new techniques would fix this lol.

Thank you for playing! <3

Haha glad you made it work. If we had more time I would've added keybind options. Thank you for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it <3

Glad you enjoyed! Thank you for playin. <3

Oh it does. It displays the lives. Unless it bugged for you or something.

Thank you for playing! <3

Good work! I love the music, super chill for the beat down I was giving to the other bento thieves haha.

Love it!

Great work! The movement was very fun. It was tricky trying to place cookies that were well hidden enough. Loved it!

It was  a lot of work but it was also well worth it!

Thank you so much for playing <3

Glad you liked it! Yeah one thing we should've added were some accessibility options.

Thank you for playing!

Great game! Love the art and gameplay. Could do with more sound effects though.

Wonderful job!

Frame rate was good. Don't sweat it, there are some bugs in my game I couldn't crack lol.

I'll check the game out. This was already a fun experience haha.

Super cool! Gameplay was entertaining to watch. Really love the art and sound. Multiplayer games for jams are rarer than a sugar cube on the moon!

Phenomenal work!

Super fun! I've never played hotline miami so it was a treat to play. (hehe).

One thing I noticed is that there's no real difference between punching and using the rolling pin. Throwing wasn't as effective as just running up and punching them. So I eventually just haymakered my way through both levels lol. Also, the hitbox for killing an enemy was a bit finicky.

Great work overall!

hahaha you were RIGHT there!

Thank you so much for playin!

Here's an interesting tid-bit. The life system was one of the last additions and was added on the last day!
It sure saved the balancing haha.

Thank you for playin!

Great to hear! Funny, my only complaint was that I didn't get to play more of your game haha.

Good job again! <3

Ah it's always the small things that improve user experience the most lol. Will do!

Thank you for playing!

Glad you liked it! Thank you for playing <3

Thanks for playing! Yeah that's something we'll work on. Appreciate the feedback!

<3

Haha glad you enjoyed! The controls were a top priority from day 1 to day 7 haha.

Godot for life! Thanks for playin! <3

Glad you liked it! Thank you for playing. <3

It means a lot to hear that! Thank you for playin! Can't wait to play your game, it looks incredible. <3

Thank you for playing! Yeah this was our 3rd game jam. Lots of love! <3

Impressive! The character controller is a bit floaty, and the game lacks impact. But The art is fun! and the gameplay is entertaining.

Great work! Especially since you made your own engine!

Wondeful presentation! I adore the artwork. Love the gameplay aswell. Climbing the big tower was a blast. Super engaging. The movement felt nice! But a bit more coyote time on the jump would be appreciated.

Great work! <3

What an amazing reward. I am truly honored lol. Wonderful job! I really liked the variety. With some more polish and custom art this could be a really cool full game!

Great work! <3

100% should add a timer to each level. Thank you for playin! It means the world! <3

Super cool. Cliche but good use of the theme. I really love the graphics. They look awesome!
Audio is awesome aswell.

Me like tron with gambling, 7/10. <3 Great work!

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This is so cool! Very unique! I adore the cats. They're adorable.

Love it to death <3

Here's ours! We're really proud of it. I'll check yours out for sure!
https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-14/rate/3844313

Great game! Really loved the music. The vibes with this game are fantastic. The gameplay was really fun aswell!

Good job! <3

Holy shit this is incredible! I didn't think I'd see an amazing RPGMaker game in this jam! The writing is phenomenal! The story is gripping! And the gameplay is simple but wildly effective! The game is so stylized. 

This is incredible and you should be proud! Great job! <3

Your game looks very cool! Here's ours! https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-14/rate/3844313

You've got something nice here! With a bit more time in the oven and a lot of polish this could be something special.

Wonderful job! <3