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.

I was expecting to like this game a lot more than I ended up liking it. It refused to go into full screen on the monitor I wanted to, the cursor did not appear in full screen, and it was acting up because I had a gamepad plugged in. Parrying is incredibly fiddly and I could only ever get it to work once. That said, it's clearly a very cool demo, and I'm curious how it will change in the future.

Probably one of the most unique mechanics I've seen in a while, and the presentation is excellent as well. The game has a lot of easy to read, yet stylish choices like the armor breaking away as you lose health or the way flying enemies spin out and explode. Aiming and shooting feel nice, though I will admit I'm terrible at this and sidescrollers in general (a unique mechanic is one hell of a hook) so take the following with a grain of salt. 

I gave up on parrying halfway through my second run because I could only get it work work without getting chipped about 30% of the time. If there are controls listed anywhere other than ASD, LMB, and Space I never found them. I pressed every sensible key I could to varying results. Sometimes I could perform a spinning dive but I don't know how. 

Total Playtime: 1ish hour. The Void Lord ate more lead than I could carry and wanted more.

Okay: real feedback now that can actually move:

This game is a bit tricky to play. I get what the game wants me to do (spam parry to gain speed and go drill mode) but I feel like the level is a bit chaotic for a first level where I'm supposed to be learning the mechanics (if it is even meant to be a first level and not just the level for demo purposes).

I'd also recommend changing the cursor to something that stands out a bit more because I would sometimes loose it's position in all the chaos onscreen.

Overall this seems like it could be interesting once it clicks, but getting to that point is a bit of a bumpy ride.

Somehow, it seems like the the movement is completely broken for me. I'm not sure how that could be the cause since others seem to be running the game fine but basically when  I hold the A or D key all the character does is a microscopic nudge in the direction.

I love the visuals and the colours and the sound. Also the title screen looks kind of like gun barrels that is cool, and making a ramp to get up higher by pilling brass shells feels awesome. It'd be cool if you could hold shift to focus / hold breathe and make tighter dispersion at range for more focused long range fire when you need it

ok the concept of this is just incredible. even from just the menu screen the game screams "this is the shit"

it does often take longer than is comfortable to build the mountain of shell casings necessary to get up to the next bit. might be a good idea to have some mechanism to generate them really fast

the existence of platforming mechanics, the ledge grab and walljump, feel unnecessary since you can just make a giant mountain to go wherever you want. but I like their existence, it makes the game feel very extra, which is definitely the tone of the whole game. good inclusion I say

I beat the void lord worm boss by the skin of my teeth, and it's a cool boss although it does have a tendency to rush out of nowhere and slam me. It's also not all that clear when I've taken damage and I still haven't figured out what exactly to do about enemy missiles

• If there's no reason to let go of LMB, why do I have to hold it down the entire time?
• The gun feels unsatisfying due to the ridiculous spread and slow projectiles.
• The health bar (and UI in general) is too small.
• The movement feels sluggish and imprecise with the slow walking speed, automatic wall-jumps, and sinking into the brass.
• Missiles feel incredibly wonky. They turn on a dime and it doesn't seem like you can shoot them down, but half the time they just pass right through you.
• Those machine gun turrets have way too much health.
• 90% of the game is just waiting for the brass to build up.
• Why does the character sometimes float in midair? I noticed it a lot while trying to jump over the boss.
• No idea how you're meant to avoid contact damage/getting shot point-blank by the boss. Only beat it because enemies do fuck-all damage.

The shell casings building up is a neat gimmick, but I don't think it has the longevity to base an entire game around it. It's basically a glorified auto-scroller.

Theres some wonkyness on the right Side going on like the Walls are changing Geometry when moving out of the Screen at the Bottom or something.

Bullets also stack up rather weirdly, they don't feel like individual Bullets or a Sea of them you're wading through, but like a moving Polygonal Shape. With that small Jump and the Bullets constantly blocking you, jumping feels very unsatisfying and not very useful. 

Biggest Issue I had tho, was that whenever I started shooting for a while, or occassionally in between the Minigun would lock on to the top left Corner with a blue Circle and I couldn't aim anymore, making it pretty much impossible to kill most Enemies, unless they just happened to be right in that Corner.