This game rules! great artwork. The movement and combat have a lot of unique aspects that you are doing an impressive job implementing. You also have good UI, tutorials and overall polish to the game at this stage.

I can definitely see the vision, but I think there are certain aspects of the movement controls that I don't gel with. Control feels pretty non existent, I feel as though I just aim downward to keep my hover and spam the jump button to wall jump my way up the level and parry everything that comes near me. Because the gun is also your jet pack, you have to choose between movement and fighting. its not bad to make that sort of kinesthetic dilemma part of the game's design, but it does make it difficult to balance while allowing the player to retain a sense of control and ability to influence their character on screen

mostly, as a player i just felt like I was along for the ride, rather than driving, if that makes sense.

but it could also be that i'm just bad at it lmao

Cool prototype, I probably have already said this in a thread but the visuals are amazing and look highly professional. I'm not someone who plays this kind of game consistently but I did find it fun. 

One thing that took me somewhat long to figure out was how to break bubble in the last room (I don't think I saw a tooltip for that?). But I guess its the point of being the end of the demo. 

Also dunno if its a bug but when low on health and you loose something like a foot it keeps moving the bullets? If its intended thats cool.

Really fun game!  I didn't master all the techniques in the short time I played but there were moments of brilliance when everything came together on my end and I was able to kill everything on screen in moments.  I think you know this already and I can see you put in some work into it but the tutorial is still rather cryptic when it comes to kicks & projectile parries.  It'd be nice if you included slow-mo videos that also displayed inputs to show how things are done properly.  Maybe it'd be worth it to have other tutorial levels just for practicing those techniques forever--but this might just be unnecessary if the upgraded tutorial is good enough.  Also, it'd probably be a good idea to have more feedback so that way it's obvious for the player when you dodge, kick, or parry.  The dodge in particular is hard to tell because the sprite just turns red--bit of hitstop for all of them might be good.  But aside from the tutorial I only have one minor suggestion: it'd be nice if I could toggle the trigger instead of hodling down the entire time!  Other than that no complaints--the art is great and there's a lot of cool details like the pieces of the armor falling & being littered about the stage as the mech takes damage!  Music and sound effects are solid as well, the jump sfx has a nice bassy heft to it, and the parry/kick has a nice pneumatic feel.

Overall, this is really polished and a good game.  I'm excited to get more!  Here's the video of my playthrough, I hope it helps!

Managed to beat the boss after 3 runs. Video: 

I couldn't beat the tutorial. I really didn't manage to obtain momentum or make that "press down while shooting up" movement. I know there is a trick to defeating the shielded enemies but I didn't figure it out.

The sound effects are great and mesh really well with the game. Shooting feels very satisfying. This could make a nice game for streamers.

Woah, this is super cool! Firing the chain gun feels very satisfying. I think you really nailed that dakka dakka dakka feeling. Also my favorite feature, the missile parry kick. That stuff is great, I loved doing that on the final boss especially, that was awesome. The brass platforms slowly rising was fun, felt like an assurance that you can always progress even if platforming fails.

Aesthetically everything fits together well I think. The art, the effects, it all gave that intense high-action shooter vibe. Maybe it could be a bit faster overall? But then again maybe I'm just bad at games and you can move faster when you play better. Yeah, thinking about it again, it might be that, for example I also never really managed to get the sideways spirit form going by building momentum, that looks super fun from the screenshots, just blazing through enemies.

But these are minor things, you really have a super fun game here!

Nice art style but movement feels slow and clunky which might just not be my preference. The mechanic where you shoot upwards and drill down mostly gets triggered unintentionally because all the enemies are above me and I'm just trying to shoot at them. Might be worth having a separate action button for certain things like that.

I'm sorry, I underestimated the amount of brain fog I would have going into this due to sleep related issues, and playtesting like this requires a lot of mental energy for me. Nonetheless, I hope you will find it useful. 
 

Beautifully difficult game here. I might just be a slow learner but it took a while to understand the parry and may take even longer to get how to control spirit form. I ended up going through my first few runs assuming I'm meant to platform just with the shell casings which still helps keep the game going until I get it. Parries are satisfying once you finally get it. I didn't quite understand how to deal with the minigun enemies so they're still nuking my health pool before I get to the boss. I'm sure if I keep coming back to it I'll get there but it would be nice if it were more clear how to get through some of it.

Played about 30min, got to the boss a few times but couldn't quite get the kill.

Game is very COOL. I want to like it more, but feels a bit backwards.

Bullets feel slow/weak. My gun feels more like a water hose for hovering and casings than a weapon.  I know the spirit of the game is that it's a multi-purpose tool, and a game needs to be balanced, but as a chain gun enjoyer, I feel let down.

Pressing away from a wall to wall jump is something I've never been a fan of personally, feels easy to let go of the wall too early. or like you're glued to it. I'd rather jump away even if I'm holding towards the wall but I guess that'd mess up the parry mechanic.

On that note, parrying projectiles is very satisfying when it works, but since you have to hold away from them, the cross-up when they are above or below you feels hard to deal with and happens a lot because of the verticality of the map.

Can't do anything intentional with Spirit Bullet, more often I plow through platforms I want to grab or dive into the casings. 

I'll admit, I might also just suck at the game, :3 so feel free to tell me my opinion is wrong.

Most of my frustration would probably go away if I didn't need to shoot down and away from enemies constantly for any real upward momentum. If you're considering any sort of additions/changes, I think a character with something like jump jets and a gun with less kick so you can push and shoot upward at the same time would be fun.

Your game's got great potential, good luck!

Very interesting concept, I like it. Good luck sorting out all the quirks from the mountain of bullets.

I didn't particularly like the wall jumps and the parries and attacks that derive from it, I think a different mechanic should take their place. Just doesn't seem to gel with with the ultra destruction/fuck platforming angle it's going for.

I had no idea what it was with the logo, it's one reason why I haven't played it until now. You make amazing art and it seems like you haven't put a game on steam before(?) So I'll tell you this: You need the main cover image to showcase the game. I would recommend drawing something for the cover art like a Mech instead of using he brass alone. But when you release on Steam, which I recommend for you to do when the game is 100% finished with the effort put in already, people will "read the book from the cover" which means the first impressions matter a lot.

Second thing: You are really introducing way too much at much. There is the shooting and the hard platforming, then you have the bugs SWARM the player and then a rocket and destroy platforms. People are going to get really out of it if you hit them with that right at the start. Explain things instead barely anything like a tutorial simulator for the mechanics.

The shells being a platform, why isn't it explained at all?What platforms can or cannot bot shot and destroyed?

I also think the robot turrets should have less HP since they require a lot of shooting before they die.

But like I said before, you have a lot good going with this, you need to put a lot of consideration of explaining things to the player more slowly, making the turrets resist the bullets less, and making a better cover image. Doing all of this will heavily  make the game a lot better now and in the future for new players.

EDIT: Thinking about it, I do wonder why the player's bullets are blocked by the turret's beams and rockets, if they are going to be blocked, then allow them to be destroyed or slowed down, or weakened with lots of hits. Maybe rockets go fly crazy when knocked off course.

I had some serious technical issues unfortunately. I couldn't walk left or right. Space jumped me up, but hitting A/D would move me barely an inch and then I would just stop. While jumping, I could only go straight up. No combination of jumping and A/D would move me at all. I can make a video if you need, but it's pretty much like I describe. 

Pretty cool. I really like the art style and sounds. The casing mechanic is badass. 

I tried it a bunch of times but never made it to the boss. I never managed to parry an attack either. Sorry, I'm just bad at video games.

The only thing I noticed was that it's kind of zoomed in too much? Sometimes my man is almost off screen. I play on a 21:9 monitor.

Wading through a literal sea of bullets is great, but there's a lot of visual things here I do not like. The vignettes or shadows on the screen can make it hard to pick out stuff, and there's so many particle effects and everything on screen that it can be hard to also figure out where to shoot or dodge.

The low health red flash is also not something I'm a fan of. I kept thinking I was taking damage when I wasn't. Feel like just having the health bar flash red would be enough. I think I enjoyed this most when I was fighting the worm more than anything.

Anyway, add a train.

I love this game and I'm super envious of it.

Idea and execution are great. My only problem is on the level design and tutorial.

I'll put it bluntly, the level design it's horrible (lol):

Your level doesn't reward you for being good at the game. If you get good with walljump+parry you still can't climb the level with ease because your design seems against it. Even if you learn to hover and chain walljumps, every once in while there are sections that you can't climb(or void sections because an explosion destroyed a whole platform). And so if/when you fall, there is a "Getting over it" effect.  Since everything is destroyed you must sit and shoot for a long while to raise your bulletsea.

This is a big problem because it's not fun to sit and wait to fill your pool.

Another compound problem is that if your game plan is to parry most enemies, the bulletsea won't rise at all, and so again the game punishes you if play well.

 ihmo you need indestructible blocks(or at least some blocks with 4x health) to create a skeleton of platforms for your level. Also a bathtub for your bullets wold be nice, so you can cut downtime if you slip.

Tutorials on how to actually play the game are pretty much missing. So you can't really be mad at players/streamers when they play like shit. The new version you uploaded with a shielded enemy doesn't solve anything. It's not a tutorial, but a roadblock. 

Don't give up this project because it's super good.