Short and Sweet. Wish it was longer, but this is great. 

I adore the graphics and audio in this game. Good Luck!

The graphics of the game look great, and seem to fit well in the style of the classic Gameboy.

The sharp diamonds that surround the stage really seem to compliment the blocks that the stages are composed of.

The bricks of the backgrounds look varied with missing bricks which goes a good job preventing the player from noticing repeating textures. Perhaps you could add some cracks in the bricks as another detail in the background as well?

The way that the character's cloak folds as the character moves around is a very nice detail in the walkcycle. Normally most cloaked character's cloaks would remain static as they move around,  but this is an exception.

It's great design that you teach the player the mechanics one step at a time instead of just shoving all the instructions into the players face at once. The instructions consist of only one word each time, so they're quick to read and it's expected that the player should figure out the details of the controls themselves.

The controls for the player feel nice to navigate around the levels with. The player has a slight bit of a slide which makes the horizontal movement controls feel smooth. I noticed that you have implemented coyote time into the jumping mechanics when I tried hopping off the corner of a platform; this is a great design choice for a platforming game. One thing that could be adjusted would be to loosen the raycast area of the ground check. It feels like it requires a bit too much precision in order to time my bunnyhopping correctly.

The skull being the goal of each level doesn't seem too fitting with the cheery music and cartoonish graphics. A simple door with a lock would have not only been more fitting in the game's style, but it would make sense as to why you are getting a key. A key and a door seem to match more than a key and a skull.

I seem to be getting slightly motion sick seeing the aggressive shaking every time I beat a stage. The aggressive quakes don't seem to spark the mood of "victory" to me, they seem to convey more of something large and dangerous occurring, such as an earthquake, large traps activating in ancient ruins, or an evil colossus awakening. Having some simple particles flying out should be enough to show the player has beaten the level.

All of the puzzles are way too easy to solve. Every puzzle just consists of moving forward, and then rewinding until the key reaches you. I was really hoping for some sort of puzzle that was different, but no level had any variety with reaching the key, other than to use this one strategy.

I was also hoping that the game would consist of more puzzles would have more variety on how to not only carefully navigate the key, but to also to navigate the player themselves. One game I can think of right off the top of my head that does this right is Donkey Kong (1994). This game is VERY similar to the one you have done for the jam and I think looking at this game's level design would help improve the layout of your stages. The majority of DK 94's levels involve Mario needing to get a huge key to a locked door by solving platformer levels that also incorporate puzzles into the design of the levels. Mario usually needs to navigate through large sections that consist of many platforms before he's able to reach the key. In some other levels however, the game changes it up by making the key is completely out of reach. A few different contraptions need to be activated in order to find a way to reach the key. Some examples of this include the key being on an inactive conveyor belt, and Mario needs to pull a lever to activate the belt to move the key towards him. Another example involves Mario needing to activate some bridges to make it to the key.

Overall, while the game does have great-looking graphics, smooth controls, and a fitting soundtrack, the level design could be much more varied, and challenging for the player. I'm really hoping this review can help you improve your game in the future.

Well done with this game, it really shines. The pixel art is incredible, I love the retro color palette and the menu animations were great too. There was one thing I noticed which was the character sprite when jumping does not have a complete white outline around it like it normally does. It's missing a white line on top of its hat, which is nitpicky but maybe you missed it and I can help by saying this :]

Overall amazing game and I hope to see more levels. I didn't think they were too easy, but maybe they will eventually be the first few levels before they start to get more difficult.

Loved the gameplay! The music was amazing! The graphics looked awesome. But I feel like it was super easy. You should have made some harder levels to make it a bit more challenging.

Love the graphics and the music but it was way to easy ^^' 

Nice game, graphics are cute and singular, player movements are smooth and nice. The concept is really cool, but my only gripe is that levels are too similar, for each room we just have to go on the platform where the key felt and rewind.

I really enjoyed your game, Good job!

Good game! I wish it was longer. And I wish it was more difficult. The majority of the levels are completed by moving a bit to the left or to the right and then rewinding. My only suggestion - make more levels like this one. It is a little different from the others but it is more interesting.

Small but very fine game. Hope to see more levels in a future version. Their seems to be a small strange distortion when the player jumps (maybe its intentional), but good game overall.

This is a great submission in terms of concept, I love it! The puzzle design could have been a little more challenging, but this could be expanded into something really good. The pixel art is also great and I liked the music as well.

This is a really well made game. The puzzle mechanics and the graphics are excellent and the gameplay flows well. Here's my feedback:

Great!

• The retro graphics are great!
• The rewind mechanic works well and is a lot of fun
• The levels are quite easy once you know how the rewinding works.
• That music is super nice!

Could be improved

• There aren't enough levels at the moment, the current levels are great, but I feel like there need to be more challenging ones as well.
• There isn't a real ending, the game just returns to the title screen after finishing the last level. I feel like a simple screen with "The wizard returned finally found the door back to its world. Thank you for playing!" would make the game feel more complete.

Hey, I like your game, played it through. First, music is retro and cool, pixel style is cool too, idea is good, had struggles in the third level get it done to move forward and with z to move the key back, I was missing something like a quick info or how to, or at least a replay level function, when the key was lost in the first attempt, so I had to restart the game. Overall a cool game, I like it, please check out Tiny Kingdom too, thank you.

I love this game, but i got stuck on a level and kept pressing Z didn't bring me back to the start status, might be adding a reboot level pause scene going forward?  Another thing is that maybe I would add W key to enable player jump, maybe it is just a force of habbit to use WASD for me. Overally I think this game has the potential to launch in the future, I like it very much. Like bombsher said, it has a lot of potential, there are just so many things you can play with the mechanics, but I also recon that the level design may get more challenging when the project gets more in depth. Looking forward to see this project goes live man, I'm adding it to my game collection to see how it goes in the future. 

Amazing game! 5 stars in everything! I want more levels of this.

Really cool idea with lots of potential!  I really like the aesthetic of the game, visuals and sound-wise very appealing and nicely done.

The few first few levels introduced controls and core mechanics precise and easy to understand, that's always a plus.

Only thing I wished is that there were more elements than walls and spikes to work with for, but I completely understand that time is limited, especially during a gamejam.

For the short amount of time however, your game and what is has to offer is amazingly polished!  Great job!

First, I would have liked some options that would allow you to turn down the music volume, but I understand that you don't have that much time for these fancy features in a game jam game.

I like how you start with actual levels that make up the tutorial. As a player, you don't want to feel handheld when you start the game.

But then the game is so short. The mechanic is cool, and I think you could have made some cool puzzles with it, but you never really get there. Some levels had some cool ideas, but you basically could solve every level by just walking to the position of the key and rewinding. 

That's kinda sad, as I think there's a lot of potential in your idea. I think what the game lacked the most where other game elements, maybe some doors and pressure plates? There are only so many things you can do with blocks and spikes.

If you want to learn more about puzzle design, I would recommend checking out the playlist by Game Maker's Toolkit. I found them very helpful when designing puzzles for our game.

Nonetheless, I think you did a good job as we only had a week and you were making everything except the music.