Kolah

Really nice job. 

Nice game. Can't find the blue cave though xD

Wow.

Stunning game! The implementation of the art was done so nicely.  The lighting, the sound design, character controller all felt great. If you  continue to work on this one gamepad support would be so awesome.  For me this game was absolutely begging to played with a gamepad, but that's probably just a preference thing. Either way I very much so enjoyed playing it with keyboard and mouse because it's so solid.

Coming in from Mynah, I was expecting some nice additions to the fomula that GamesBySpinola has (if you haven't played Mynah, I'd recommend it!); I was pleasantly surprised by what I found in this game with how a lot of nice user-end features were added (more tutorials, interactive NPCs, bringing back the dash/jump tech), and with all this added, the game definitely felt like it was an upgrade to it's predecessor for the most part. One massive thing that I want to give praise to this game for is that the bosses force you to either get extremely good at whatever strategy you want to try to beat them with, or learn a completely new strategy altogether.

I want to emphasize the "for the most part" section I just mentioned; where this game definitely did take steps in the right direction, there were areas of it's gameplay that felt like it had regressed or could be improved on still:

- No I-frames when hit: enemies can stunlock you if they're grouped or you're up against a wall

- Double jump can drop when doing dash&jump tech (you only get one jump): this gets annoying during long spike sections where falling into a pit is a one-way ticket to getting stunlocked and dying

- Keybindings feel bad/mouse was unnecessary/Let players change the keybindings: adding a menu to let the player choose what buttons do what would make the keybinding scheme feel less clunky

- Punctuation/grammar in the story telling: this one's not too big of a deal, but it would definitely benefit from having another person make corrections

- No I-frames on any ability except Special 2: this is especially annoying when you get the first special attack as it locks you in place with an animation that enemies tend to just walk through and hurt you

- Thorns still stunlock: unless you're near a safe spot, falling into thorns (AKA spikes) will almost always be an insta-death. A good remedy to this is causing places to just automatically be placed at the start of the current screen upon touching the thorns (similar to Hollow Knight)

- Enemy attack hitboxes aren't properly matched with enemy attack animations: you won't notice this too much in this base game, but once you do the final challenge, you'll notice this is a huge pain 

All in all, this was definitely an improvement, but somewhere along the process, a few things were missed or code needed to be updated to keep up with the scale of the game. Playing this does give me high hopes for what's to come from GamesBySpinola, so definitely follow this creator and support them if you can!

My playthrough:

Hello! I love the game, it feel good to play, I really like the overall difficulty and I love the art style. Great work 

I'm not done playing it, I just obtained the ability to shoot, but I found something that could be worth mentioning in the room that we obtain that ability. 

First is that I was able to walk without taking damage in every spike of the room and the second things is that the door at the right of the room was not opening even if I had the shooting ability. It opened after closing and reopening the game. 

So far from what I have played, this game is a very good and I don't doubt that the rest of the game will be as good as that.👍

Hi! Your little game is so cool !, Good feeling, and story. I'm a french student in sound design and music for video games. 

I would be interested to work with you on the audio if you mind!

Great job! Loved the atmosphere. The story kept pushing me forward, and enemy encounter were challenging. 

Jumping from edges can be tricky because as soon as you're slightly off the edge you can't jump, so you fall and have to get back up to points which can get tedious. In other words, there is no coyote time.

Combat encounters can also go south really fast. The damage system is unforgiving so combat demands caution on the players part.

The enemies aren't complex. They're mostly like Mario enemies, mindless. But you've got to study their behavior to survive engaging them. so combat isn't dynamic, but what is on offer is engaging and challenging enough.

Ultimately, i'm very impressed!

Congratulations!

Hey, this is great!! It's wonderfully crafted, it feels really polished, and the atmosphere really stands out. Very impressive.

Hey, this game looks great and feels good to play. In the deep forest though, I think your textures are having the same compression issues as in your game Mynah. Also, in a small section (I can't quite remember where, I believe it's somewhere close to the entrace to the deep forest)you can see the unity default background at the top right of the screen, I think the background/tilemap is just misaligned. I really enjoyed playing this game, I might finish it when I have the time.

A++, great use of all my assets! Awesome job :)