Very cool game and cool it was made from scratch! Awesome tutorial, awesome visuals, and great layout and sound design. The credits of the game didn't display properly for me, and the controls were difficult - getting over that first big wall was a journey in itself for me haha!! But other than that, I love this take on the theme.

Solid movement, good music and visuals, the food textures in specific are really nice. Unsure if it was intended, but I did got  a checkpoint near the purple soup at the bottom and couldnt get back up to collect the remaining spoons. Good job on the game, specially considering that everything was made for the jam.

Wow, awesome game. Like Only Up, just downwards :-D 

It's a real cool and unique art style, impressively how  you made the whole world from scratch in that short time.

Has a few interesting game mechanics, that are very  well polished. Also like the animations of them.

I have now ca. 40 minutes of playtime, but unfortunately not collected all the spoons yet. Seems my pole vault skills are just too bad^^ So can not fully rate, what happens when i finally reached the soup succesfully.

But here some feedback, because i could image you want to continue with that game (definitely would encourage you, has lots of potential imho) :

The tutorial section is very helpful and nicely designed to introduce the mechanics step by step.  Here just a little thing: Would be good to respawn maybe a bit early. Think as i accidentally dropped off, i had to fall 10-15 seconds or so, and was not sure, if should restart... later understood than why, as i saw the soup, so  probably just place the collider under the tutorial-section a bit higher.

Did not fully understand the purpose of the compass at the top. And tried to reach it a few times, but seems just to be an image? At least the one at the top, later understood then, that they seem to be a kind of checkpoints. That is actually pretty cool, but unfortunately i accidentally reached one pretty much on the bottom, so that i missed lots of the spoons above. Maybe you could have a little check, that you only enable the checkpoints step-by-step if you already reached the one directly before or so.

It was a bit hard to discover the golden spoons. As soon as you know how they look, it's ok, but maybe mark the first one a bit more obvious. Also would be probably helpful to have an overview how many are left or so...

Hope that helps a bit. Definitely a great job of the whole team!

But have to eat something now, for some reason I'm hungry :-D

Hey this was really fun! The movement was very crisp and I thought the pole vaulting mechanic was pretty creative. The graphics were amazing considering that everything was made by the team within the weak. I had an issue with knowing where to go because there is a lot of stuff on the screen and it was pretty difficult to find the golden spoons amongst all the objects. If there was some sort of HUD or maybe making them brighter I think that would have helped me a lot. Apart from that, great work it was a very enjoyable game.

Great work, game looks amazing considering you made all of the assets yourselves in the allotted time.

Very impressive and unique submission. Nice interpretation of the theme too.

Graphics are brilliant; exceptional for a Game Jam. I liked that you chose to make a cluttered style of environment while ensuring that all the assets still shared a similar art style. The character model looked quite cute, and the postprocessing effects are very well done. The music really does add to the aesthetic of the game, and the Pogo sound fits in nicely too.

The actual characters movement controls very well. The Pogo mechanic took a bit of getting used to, but once I got used to it I found I could move it quite simple to move around the map. The grappling mechanic is fun to use (targets changing colour depending on whether you could grapple to them was a nice touch). I can see that a lot of work went into Game Design to build an interesting level.

For improvements (I will be nitpicking as you seem to be quite experienced. It will not affect how I rate your submission), I'd suggest the following QoL changes:

• I found it very cumbersome to get back to the top to get spoons I missed (this is ultimately what stopped me finishing the game). Maybe add a way to return to the top without Restarting the whole game.
• On the Tutorial Mouse Icon, I found it hard to work out which button was pressed down on the mouse. Led to some confusion of me trying to grapple instead of Pogo. Maybe up the contrast a bit.
• Spoons could be quite hard to see from far away. Maybe add a highlight effect to them if they are further away.
• The Pogo Vaulting can be unintuitive. I'd suggest adding a charge bar to give you a clear visual cue for whether you will jump up or forward.
• The timer in the bottom right is not zero padded for 0-9 seconds

All round interesting and fun game. Excellent job!

Super looking, well polished, one hell of the trip you made! I dont know what to say, exept: amazing. I managed to trew myself out of the borders few times, but really enjoed it, this is an awesome game! Congrats on your work!

Incredibly fun game! I love the visuals, they look unbelievably polished! And I the movement system is genius! I love the fact that the player uses chopsticks as a pole vault! And the grappling is really fun to mess around with (though, a bit too strong, as you can grapple to something that is in the opposite direction of your velocity and pretend that you're being fired from a slingshot lol).

My only issues with this game are that i feel like the song doesn't really fit the tone of the gameplay (though that's a subjective one, so i didn't remove any points for that), and that it's really easy to go flying away from the stage, but other than that it's awesome!

Very well done!

Good Game!

Amazing visual experience! The controls were good too.

Very nice game. Cool graphics and visual effects. A little optimization is weak, overall a good job)

The game was frustrating lol but it was very fun too! I'm surprised that I actually managed to finish the game (though with only five of the spoons, I think there were seven). The mechanics were fun to use and it was satisfying to land perfectly on where you wanted to go. The grappling mechanic was interesting too, though it kinda shoots you fast sometimes? don't know if that's a feature. As for the graphics, my computer's a potato so I couldn't really set it at high settings but looking at the screenshots, it looks great!

Really cool and unique, loved the design of everything. As someone who works in a ramen shop, I can tell ya, this is exactly what it's like, I swear. although It was kind of annoying when I got to the bottom and realized I didn't have all the spoons, getting back up is really hard.

This game is great! 

It took a little getting used to, but after a couple minutes the vaulting and swinging clicked and I had a great time bouncing around the soup grabbing spoons. The soup itself is an excellent looking environment that took me back to one of the old Super Monkey Ball 2 stages. 

I would have liked some camera options, being able to invert and reduce the sensitivity would have been a nice touch. 

Overall, extremely fun and very good looking game. I went back for a second round to swing around more and grab some extra spoons, if there were more levels I would have kept on playing.

Awesome game!  you did an amazing job with the textures and the environment was so fun.  I loved all the floating food in the cosmos soup.  It was pretty challenging, but I didn't think any of the controls were annoying or too hard to learn.  Some more player feedback would have been nice.  I thought it was a little hard to tell how many spoons I collected, maybe I just needed to pay more attention though.

Here's a link to my game if you've got some time.  I saw on discord you might do a playthrough so I thought that might be fun to see if you could solve the riddle.

https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-10/rate/2236662

Great game, The art is awesome and looks really cool, and I really like the minecraft dropper type gameplay, (except thats its kind of the oposite of a dropper, since you want to go down as slow as possible and collect stuff). but you know what I mean. Machanics are fun, especially the pole vaulting, its really cool and creative in my opinion. And the game has a really fun theme. and I have to say, I'm kinda shocked this only has 5 ratings.

The only negative thing I could think of is that the walking sometimes doesn't feel precise enough. especially for a game that requires a lot of precision for every move. But honestly, thats not that big of a problem. was a lot of fun!

Great game. Keep it up♥

Arts was amazing but it is a bit hard to find objectives because of look. Creative and fun mechanic but need a bit improvement to work better. Character looks nice. I think movement should be more smooth and faster. Other than that game is incredible for a week. We are probably gonna see this game published on the future.

Good entry! The movement feels a bit too floaty, the objective is not clear and I found the wall-lump useless & it’s a shame the grappling mechanic is so restrictive because I felt powerless once I misstep and fell into the soup abyss.

The feeling of jumping forward is really nice and I wish the level design had some more challenges to make it shine more.

I really like the design of the character with the chopsticks on its back, thanks for the game!

Awesome experience! My only point of criticism is that the tutorial didn't do a great job at explaining that I needed 5 golden spoons and no silver spoons, but the controls were fun if a little slippery, I loved the grappling and the vaulting, and its such a cute and unique idea! Menu design was also top notch. Great work! I'd appreciate a play through and rating back!

I coudn't go though the tutorial, really