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.