This game is really good. i like the assets and the intro its really good. i think this game fits the theme really well. it is a bit hard to play though i kept trying but i kept falling to my death. also i feel like the movement is a bit fast like sometimes there's no friction. otherwise great entry good job.

It took me a bit to get the hang of this game but once I did, I enjoyed it! The swinging mechanic felt fun and I liked the sounds that accompanied grappling. I'm sure this is due to time constraints but the game could really use some music to add to the whole experience. Overall, a great take on the theme, nice pixel art, and fun gameplay mechanics. Good job! 

The grappling mechanic is cool as heck! I'd like to see it more developed.

Visually it's pretty amazing. Liked the art and it was especially cool that you guys managed to get an intro with images (although one of the last ones I didn't understand exactly what was depicted). The tutorial is pretty cool and the only minor problem I had with the graphics were the green/orange-ish spikes on the walls, they felt like they blended a bit too much with the background so I didn't figure it would kill me, until it did. Also, the jumping and spinning while double jumping are super charming, kudos on the animation.

On the sound department I think music is a must in this game. The frustration from dying time and again felt worsened by the sheer silence. I like the jumping sound effect but the dash one was quite uncanny, felt like Gigio was suffering somehow. The death sound is super cool though! And brutal.

I really enjoyed my time playing with the grappling hook, but Gigio's momentum is a tad too unforgiving. I actually gave up on the tutorial because I kept on falling while in the jumping parts. His falling speed felt a bit too fast, making missteps pretty certain death as it was near unreactable to me.

Also, regarding the checkpoints, I've reached a few of them but I'm not sure they are working because when I die I seem to return to the beginning of the map. Maybe some indicator of how deep you are could help?

Other than that, there were some really minor typos that you guys are probably aware, like the "Options (not aviable)".

All in all, I had a lot of fun trying to survive falling around. The grappling mechanic really is super neat and when you get to save your skin using it, avoiding spikes by an inch, it feels amazing! Congratulations guys!

Really fun core mechanic with the movement and grappling hook but the level design in the main game made it hard to freely move. Weirdly felt like the tutorial level had more freedom.

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It's a great intro and very cool game-mechanics. Also like these little details like the little rotation on the double jump and it's a good fit for the theme. This game could be extremely fun, but for my taste it's a bit too hard.

There was actually just one real big problem: Not sure, it's somehow kind of embarassing a bit, lol, but really had it: I don't know how often i played the full tutorial from the beginning until the dash section, because this part was ways too hard for me.... (and now believe it or not) until i noticed, there is a "retry"(!) button. I always clicked the "Reset Level" button, because for some reason didn't identify the "retry" one as a button .... now as soon as have noticed, don't understand why i missed it, because it's soo big^^  Just as a feedback, because got actually really frustrated at the beginning of playing this intro section one million times. Maybe just remove the "reset level" button completely, because guess it has anyhow no real usage^^

But all in all i liked it and played now pretty, pretty long :-D 

The grappling hook feels very nice but something about the base physics of the player movement feels off, can't really point to to what.

I can see the potential of a platformer with these mechanics, not just going down.

The level design is kind of frustrating because there is not a lot of room for experimentation and having fun with the grappling hook, would've loved having some more space and thought put into the level design.

Good job!

Good job! The grappling is very dynamic and well implemented.

However I feel the overall movement speed you reach and the level design goes a bit against it. I felt more frustrated than in control as whenever I tried to descend fast I always ended up dying in less than a second, so I found myself descending very slowly and carefully, without using none of the tools I had to go fast, because then it was game over. I also went slow because I didn’t want to miss the checkpoints! Maybe to have them as a horizontal line that crosses the full pit would have helped me to take more risks as well.

I think using the double jump as a momentum break would be interesting as then it would give a breather when going very fast and encourage you to take risks. I noticed the double jump is available at the beginning but when you reach some momentum it’s disabled, which is when I wanted it most. I only used the dash at the tutorial, because every time I used it descending it killed me against something or made me lose the platform I was aiming for. I never tried to pull my character with the rope because I didn’t find any reason for it.

Some of the spikes were very hard to notice, specially the yellow ones and the death felt weightless: would have been cool to stop the movement and adding a camera shake so it felt a bit better to die and retry.

Overall, I think the game goes a bit too fast and it’s too unforgiving to encourage you to use all the tools you have. Reminded me a bit of sonic, that you are going too fast and end up being hit because you just can’t see what’s comming next, but in sonic you can gather back your rings and continue whereas in here you just die. It becomes a bit into a memory game, trying to go through the same paths you know.

All that said, I kept trying to go down so it’s an engaging entry. Thanks for the game!

Very cool game, traversal mechanics feel really good. One suggestion - maybe checkpoints in tutorial? Because of unusual inertia and some small things like inability to harpoon midjump, it became pretty challenging for me. Maybe skill issue :D

Really fun take on the theme. The grappling hook worked great and was polished. The visuals look great everything was nicely drawn and beautiful. The UI also does a great job at communicating to the player. I personally found some of the sounds annoying but other than that the game was incredible.