ART Fantastic pixel art really nice! some of the contrast between layers confused me a little. The enemies especially looked great!

SOUNDS

Game soundsed good, the music gave me flashbacks to when I was a kid - so good job on that!

GAMEPLAY

Gameplay was good, had a few issues with the room transitions, falling to my death and I managed to get stuck in a tile when I stopped at the edge of a scene border by mistake:

Only other thing that I didn't really like were the controls (B to attack I did not like) - but that's personal and minor

OVERALL

Great entry! would love to see this expanded on - well done on submitting :)

Impressive  especially for a jam entry :o

The pixel art is really high grade, the music also fits the game to a tee, perfectly captures that feeling compos from the Castlevania series have with a bit of it's own jazzyness added to it.

Gameplay overall feels quite polished but still has some small issues though. Some jumps are really stretching far to the limit of the max jump height and length the character can reach making some quite hard, this is a bit eliviated when you get the double jump but still, the map helps but some aspects of the level design still feel a bit confusing (with some areas i suppose requiring an upgrade i didn't find yet to get to ? but wasn't sure about)

Now with that said this doesn't take away from the positives and sheer quality on display here, the variety of environements and music, and well general amount of content considering the deadline even for a team effort deserves to be noted.

Overall had a real good time with this one even if i didn't get too far

So congrats, and good job to y'all :)

The game feels awesome to play, the soundtrack is a blast and fits each area, and the SFX is very well crafted and placed too, adding a lot of game juice to the experience, and making it really satisfying to play!

I want to talk about some minor problems that could be fixed, but the game is great by itself!

• The minimap only shows where you are. I guess this was a design choice, but I feel that showing your current position in the room could improve the navigation.
• There are some parts where the background and the ground blends and makes it difficult to see what's a wall and what isn't. The best example of this is the Desert area, where the darker bricks are almost the same color as the ground in the background, making it hard to see if you are focused on the enemies and platforms.

Other than that, it was a very pleasant experience, and a nice surprise to find! Good job 😋.

I loved this! The game felt great to play, loved the music, the sound effects were superb, the level design and graphics were awesome - just really good all around. I hit a bug in firefox where the player disappeared when respawning, but apart from that it felt very polished.

My only criticism really would be that the map didn't work for me at all (was excited to see that as it was something I wanted to add to my game) and a couple of the rooms felt a bit rough as you moved into them to immediately drop off a ledge (usually into spikes)! But apart from that it was excellent really. It felt quite megadrive-y, and I mean that as a compliment!

Very neat, I see a lot of game juice already, pretty cool.

I would sugest a better combat system, I don't like to stop when I have to attack. Also after I etered the temple, the game just stoped, I couldn't walk, or go back.

With a little polishing this can be really cool!

What I liked

• Fantastic music and visuals. Definitely ranks among my favorites from what I've played so far.
• Animations were very fluid
• I love controller support. It felt *almost* perfect.
• This the first game that I've played that has kept the scene active while showing the map, and looks good doing it. The "out-of-focus" blur is perfect.
• So much polish. Its amazing what a team can do during a jam.

Improvement suggestions

• You should add the d-pad keys for their respective movement directions. It feels more natural to me to play with the d-pad in 2D games.
• You should definitely add an in-game options/quit/resume game menu. I was pretty shocked that despite all the polish, the game was missing this

Bugs

• There was a random time where I died and when i returned to the last save spot, I was invisible, and couldn't interact with the game other than attacking and opening the map.

Overall, you guys did a great job!

Really cool Game. Enjoyed going through all the Maps back and forth, the Combat is easy and quick.

On some Areas the Tiles are Black, seems like a Tile Rule or something is not correct.

Nice Graphics and well designed Map Layout with lots of PowerUps

I just would like to have different Controls or Controller support.

besides that you guys made an awesome game! Ah and a Map would be cool since there are so many Intersections!