One of my TOP 5 games for this JAM!!

Really loved the art coupled with the dialogue sounds. It really makes the game feel alive.

The jump is too short initially and it took me a lot of tries to figure out that you have to shoot downward after jumping and use that momentum to jump higher. This is a bit tricky to execute as well.

While shooting multiple dark enemies, only one of them got executed per shot, even tho the were all in the light, but the same was not the case for the light enemies for some reason. Maybe they have a different health?

Apart from these bugs, the game is really fun and I think more people would love it if it was a tad more fast-paced with the jump fixes. Great job!

What worked:

I really like the firing modes of the gun. It is really fun to propel yourself around recklessly. It's wacky and goofy in a good way, reminding me a lot of Newgrounds type games (Battleblock Theater, No Time To Explain, Castle Crashers).

What didn't:

It's a bit tedious having to check every dark corner for enemies. It really slows down what feels like a fast-paced game. 

I would have liked to see interaction between the two firing modes. As it stands, each one activates by itself, but I kept wanting to light boost, dark swing, dark swing, then light boost up a ledge when I fell a bit short. This suggestion is entirely up to you of course since it drastically changes the game. I think this could be implemented by having the firing modes set to separate timers so you can't spam either one, but can activate them one after the other. Also on this note, I'd have loved if the light blast gave you more of a midair boost, but I understand why it doesn't since it seems heavily momentum based.

Checkpoints would be appreciated. The main area is short enough that it's fine, but it doesn't feel good having to restart hell the bouns level.

Bugs:

Didn't see any

Great job!

I liked how powerful the character felt with the crazy weapon range and huge jumps. The controls take some getting used to.  One annoying thing was that you would get knocked off a platform when using the light attack due to the knock back. The enemies hiding in the dark were thematic, but it was a little annoying checking every dark corner for them. Maybe subtle sound cues in the dark could alleviate this problem. I enjoyed the sound effects and music, it felt very wacky and suited the game well. Overall nice submission to the jam.

cool, i love the sound fx

Honestly didn't beat it, but really tried. Perhaps feature checkpoints? 

As for mechanics, it's really fun realizing how things work by yourself, and it requires like 2 mins.

The first submission I played that actually feels like a complete game. Also speedrunable!

Literally the only things I can note is that only white enemies have that circle effect after death & level restart would look better with some transition. And again, checkpoints😅😅

The masculine urge to not stop to shoot enemies and just outjump them all... Too bad I have skill issue.

Final rating: my pfp + happy smile

I had fun with the game
I loved the mechanic used, having two ways to shoot gave a unique view per game, and having two types of enemies helped to highlight this mechanic. Missing something that better shows who was hit, maybe making the enemy that took damage blink is an option.
The level design is also very good, it gives a challenge, but it helps to understand what I can do with the mechanics.
I had several tries until I managed to finish it, it was almost at the end when I died, so that made me want to play differently. By combining the jump with the dark shots, the jump was very high, so the game becomes a true speed run challenge, with precise jumps, and a high risk of failure.
It's very challenging, but it's very rewarding comes the end.

Ik that tutorials in a game jam are a risk because of the limited time, but I really wish this game had any sort of tutorial because I spent way too much time just not knowing what I was expected to do which was a very frustrating feeling. Though once I did figure out what I had to do the game was tons of fun to mess around with and chain together! But I don't think I would have gotten to the point where I knew what I was doing without smashing my head against a wall as my intro to the game especially due to the amount of obstacles in the game's intro, I felt the game expected too much from me for an intro stage. 

This is not to take away from the rest of the game because the rest of it is really fun! 

Good game with great mechanics! I think that it would be good to have some indications to where the enemies are, like some sound queues or effect before the player is attacked by them, and like the other comment, some sort of damaging indicator would be great.

This game is underrated! Really liked how u implemented the theme and I like the voice acting!

Excellent entry. Love how you implemented the theme in several ways at once, as a tool of movement and combat, well done. The ennemies maybe lacked a bit of juice to make it clearer that the ray was damaging them but the voice commentary was a great touch.