No worries my friend, puzzle games are the hardest for jams since they're so difficult to playtest!
I would suggest changing level 2 to a series of rooms, with the first few having a single piano in, and then the final room can be two pianos. I think that would make it much easier to teach the player what they do, because right now you don't get any feedback unless both pianos are on the right key.
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This was a fun game to play, with a cool theme. The pixel art is excellent with the monsters in particularly looking really awesome. Killing enemies is satisfying with great visual and sound effects. Once I saw one of the powerups was increased exp I knew I just had to risk-reward roll it every time I see it and level up faster, and I had a lot of fun before my light got big enough to trivialize the game.
At first the game seemed really hard, but after getting the explosion powerup it becomes much more manageable. It feels like the explosion upgrade may be required to get past only a couple minutes. I found a little bit of a bug, when your light becomes large enough you cannot aim it anymore, it's set at a fixed direction. When it's this large there is a blind spot on the side of the screen where you can't hit enemies. You can start seeing this surprisingly early with the Q power.
Awesome job!
This is a really fun puzzle game! I love the minimalist art style, and you have great animations and visual effects for pretty much every action the player can take. Your in game tutorial is awesome, and I had a blast trying to get the optional stars!
A few pieces of feedback: I think the tutorial room teaching you the shockwave could be worded a little differently. I thought the message about shockwaves being created when you fall 2x your jump height meant that when you land, you can then jump 2x as high. I spent a while in that room trying to get the high jump to work before realizing that's not what it meant.
You've got great juice when it comes to art and sound, but this game is BEGGING for a pinch of screen shake when you cause a shockwave to really sell the effect.
I think this jump in particular is really tough, especially if you miss it you probably need to restart the level. You do seem to have some coyote time and jump input buffering, but they act either inconsistently or don't behave how I would expect. An adjustment to the coyote time should solve this jump issue.
Excellent job!
It's clear a lot of love went into this game, especially since you made every part of it during the jam. It's very immersive with excellent polish and great art and music. Voice acting really stands out in a jam as well. The mini games work great and feel immersive, with a particular shout of to the Morse Code game. Having to type the message yourself slowly letter by letter is wonderfully suspenseful. Transition between having the side view of the whole light house on and off is satisfying as well I toggled it a few times just for fun. I really loved the small pieces of dialogue that would happen outside of a conversation like burning the food.
Since this is an extremely polished experience already, I'm going to give much pickier feedback than usual and more of it. Ya'll got full marks from me, these are just some bolts I think could be tightened to push it over the top.
This game is incredibly immersive, but the loading screens actually broke that immersion for me eachtime. They're excellent loading screens, but I would consider something like a fade to black, black loading screen, fade back in when going to and from a mini game.
The target phrase box in the Morse Code mini game is really hard to see. The book on the left showing the alphabet is MUCH more eye catching and my attention was immediately drawn there. I spent at least a minute wondering if I should be hearing the beeps or trying to spell out words before I even noticed the target phrase.
The controls for the gear mini game: Right now you click to pick up a gear and click to place it. I would change it to holding the mouse button down to pick up the gear and releasing to drop it. This is what I intuitively thought it would be and it matches the kitchen mini game.
The cooking mini game felt overwhelming. I think it would be a great idea to have a small cooking section on the first day with a much simpler recipe and without time restrictions. It can frustrate a player if they have to learn a mechanic while also being timed on it's execution. You also have to click into the book spending some seconds to look at the recipe. I also wasn't sure if after the food was burned if you were supposed to start all the way over? This is a well made mini game it just needs a bit more clarity.
Maybe an autosave system? This one is maybe a bigger ask if you don't have save slots but you do have a save system. I was playing the windows build and the third time I burnt the food my game crashed. I remembered seeing a continue button on the home screen and was sad when it didn't let me resume prior to the crash. I didn't realize that I had to manually save, even though that's a reasonable expectation.
And finally check the below screenshot. Navigating the bedroom stairs has some awkwardness. When you go up the stairs from below the player character is put in the corner above the stairs. I pressed S and D together to try and walk diagonally down but since I hit S I was sent down the stairs. This happened multiple times. I would move where the player spawns to the red circle to make this a bit better.
Exceptional work! I look forward to seeing what ya'll make next. 
This game is a lot of fun! I spent about two hours trying to optimize my laser. This game has great visuals and awesome music, and a functional tutorial for a jam is impressive!
The biggest piece of feedback I have is the player needs to be placing the lenses more often, and I think destroying a placed lenses should refund at least part of its cost. I placed down a lot of mirrors only to find out they weren't quite right, but destroying them would be a waste. I only destroyed ones that were actively harming my setup. I played the game for so long because I was enjoying myself, but if you juice and polish it just a bit more you have an absolutely banger game.
Full marks from me, great job!
I like the vibes of this game, the music is fun and I love the texture of the hand drawn creatures!
Since you're going to continue working on this game, I would look into adding both jump input buffering and coyote time. These are two invisible features that makes platformers feel a lot better. Right now if you're just a tad late on the jump input off a ledge your double jump gets eaten. Most of the jumps up high require the double jump, so that means you're falling a pretty far way afterwards.
I'd also take a look at the clarity in the level design. I assume a lot of it is temporary, but sometimes the black trees in the parallax scrolling can look like platforms and I tried to jump on it once. I'd also take a look at the screenshot below. I wouldn't assume that the red area is a space I could jump too. You did put a heart pickup there which clued me into it, but later on to the left of this there's another brown wall that I believe is the same color. I tried to jump into it and it didn't work.
Awesome job!
This game has an excellent vibe with the music and the CRT filter! I'm really into using the different wave forms to pass through objects and you have great in game text and tutorials. This game is also tougher than I expected it to be!
A few pieces of feedback: It took me longer than I'd like to figure out WASD only works while you're a wave, and I struggled a bit to tell what color was what for both the forms and obstacles. I had a really tough time trying to make it past these obstacles because they're so close together!
Awesome job!