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Good job, looks like a lot of work was put into it. Lots of room for improvement as well.
I enjoy the environmental artstyle very much, not as much as the character art and the enemies so far, but I think it is going in the right direction.
In relation to movement and menu navigation (specifically the craft menu). I have to say unfortunately that it was horrible. I had to turn on my game controller to get it to craft the item. It was super buggy, and the movement is quite buggy as well.
The character keeps stopping and stalling when walking, it can be quite infuriating lol.

I would focus on the basics here. Movement, camera movement, and Gameplay. Make sure that everything works perfectly, before trying to make things look good. To make sure the game is actually smooth and fun.

Other than that, good job!

EDIT:

ALthough I think I had technical issues from my end, that might have contributed to the bugs. so my apologies.
because my antivirus seems to keep deleting game files after I download, super annoying.

Everything about this game is excellent in my opinion 5 stars.

The retro style environment , the soundtrack and sound design. Absolutely perfect.
The shift of scenery between different levels together with the soundtrack also very nice.
The game design is also very good. A lot of cues when you are in a different place and where I might find the upgrades for doublejump and the attack.

Good job.

Thank you very much Nateycakes. Your comments means a lot to me :-)
I will try and patch this game up properly , so that it has a cohesive scenario to start with in the next coming weeks hopefully.
I hope you stay tuned for updates!
Cheers.

Thanks, I love your comment. It has a lot of very useful information and I will try my best to make the most of it.
The game is indeed very incomplete, this was super rushed. I wasn't even supposed to program it. I was just going to write the music lol, but at the end , I jumped in to help the other programmer in my group and added the whole thing with the AI, map hazards on top of the musical composition and a little bit of sound design.
It definitely needs lots of patching.  I hope you stay tuned so you see my updates. I really appreciate you playing it and giving feedback!
Cheers.

Good animations and effects, good voice acting. Good gameplay . A little more variety of combos at the beginning would have been nice. It seems a little buggy.
But the speer attack looks and feels very good.
Although it was difficult for me to enjoy it to the fullest. The jump seems a little weak, and a double jump would have been nice when those vertical lasers fly around. but I'm sure that shouldn't be too hard to do.
I also can't tell when I am hit, so I usually die without noticing beforehand. Best add some kind of hitflash.

All in all this seems to be a solid game already. Just a few adjustments and it's good to go :D

good animation. well synchronizewd with sound. A very megaman kind of appearence.
Narrative also very nicely executed.
Impressive scale of the game, having a map to follow and all. Congrats! very good.

What I would improve. I would make sure that the sound effects are not too loud. Especially if they are related to short instances, like when you press a button. It can be quite deterring. So I naturally turn my sound down.

other than that, it's good. You can spice it up with some double jumps and combos and things like that.

Excellent execution.

Good storyline, narrative. The mission is clear and it makes sense.

Artstyle good. I didn't make it too far. I managed to kill the first boss.

It starts to get a little creepy at some point when the colours get greyer and there is corpses lying aroudn all over the place, so I chickened out xD just kidding-, but I died once.

Anyways. I have one thing to suggest for improvement.

At the beginning I took some time to figure out I had to get the plasma gun and then run all the way back to destroy the boxes in front of that door.

To get through it. I didn't even realize that it was a door at first, as there didn't seem to be anything indicating that it is (or I'm just slightly dumb)

Overall expert job!

Excellent execution.
Good storyline, narrative. The mission is clear and it makes sense.
Artstyle good. I didn't make it too far. I managed to kill the first boss.
It starts to get a little creepy at some point when the colours get greyer and there is corpses lying aroudn all over the place, so I chickened out xD just kidding-, but I died once.

Anyways. I have one thing to suggest for improvement.

At the beginning I took some time to figure out I had to get the plasma gun and then run all the way back to destroy the boxes in front of that door.
To get through it. I didn't even realize that it was a door at first, as there didn't seem to be anything indicating that it is (or I'm just slightly dumb)

Overall expert job!

Very solid in it's execution. good job. I like the art style and animations. The sound effects are also very nice.
I noticed that the soundtrack switches between electric guitar with distortion to acoustic guitar, depending whether or not you are close to an enemy. Very nicely done!

-But I would improve the music for sure, because it sounds very empty, and the melody is not very consistent.

The map design also has a lot of room for improvement imo. There are a few parts that deceivingly enough urge me to go in a certain direction but then I can't.

But overall good job, keep it up!

I appreciate the comment, Vandal's Aria <3, I will try my best to keep working on it and bring updates. I want to at least finish and polish one mission, possibly with some narrative. lets see.  The next update will probably be submitted to the 3-month metroid jam as well. But once the rating for this one ends, I should have some updates ready
Have a nice weekend!

Really enjoyed the choices you have in the game. However some things didn't react to me interacting with them, for instance the bomb, I clicked on the cables nothing happens.
So maybe an indication that something is needed for a certain action to be done, would be great.
But overal great job!

I really like the design and the animations in the menu and in-game.
However I had a big issue with performance, and was playing this at like 10fps.
I'm curious if the animation for the cubes is eating up alot of performance.
But still I made it to stage two almost got at the end of that one, but died.
Overall great game!

Really enjoyed playing the game. I made it to the end and won first try.
Great job!

Thank you for playing and the feedback!

Thank you very much for playing my game. I have to check if I can fix the speed of the ball or the paddle.

Thanks for playing, and that's a great idea ;-)

Thanks for playing and the feedback! Yeah I think I left my paddle too slow.
I'm happy you enjoyed it.

Thanks for playing and the feedback! I already noticed that I left my paddle too slow, I'll see to fix that.

Thank you for playing and for the feedback! Yes I should have increased the movement speed.

Really enjoyed playing your game Vlad! This reminds me of happy wheels and other 2D sideview racing games. Seems nicely polished for what it is, Great job!

I really enjoyed playing this game! This reminds me of Audiosurf.
- I love the soundtrack and all the animations of the UI etc.
- The gameplay is nice and simple, as the visuals.
- The difficulty spike is alright, at the end of the first level, it got a little difficult though, might not be easy to progress first try.
Great job overall!

Very fun and funny game! I enjoyed playing it. The soundtrack is also very nice.
There were a few moments where I got stuck in the walls/tiles and I think the hitboxes are a little too big. Overal great job!

I played the game! It's really great. However there is a bug where if you freeze the ant shortly before you get eaten by the frog, it creates duplicates on the respawn and I was like playing 3 ants at the same time.

Also if you restart the level with the in-game menu, it resets when you get through half the map, so that you have to return to the main menu and select the level from there.

Great game and concept though!

They give you extra points :-)

I think I solved the gui issue with this one, maybe you can try it again and let me know if it's better.