Very well polished game! I found that the tutorial was a little long, though I liked the cute twists (e.g. that the spikes actually did damage!)

Some critical feedback for an otherwise solid entry:

1. I like that your icons in the menu are shooting for minimalism, but they are at a cost of clarity. The three bars icon on the left looks like it would be for some kind of menu (ala mobile-friendly websites). And the play button (which is ">", also used for the back button in the credits page...) should ideally be first in your menu, to fit with player expectations. You may consider different icons, or to just go ahead and put text there. The important thing is to make the interface clear and easy to use -- I'd place that a hair above visual style. Perhaps the icon along with some text. This is a small issue. Your visual language for the game is very cohesive and playful.
2. Work on your grammar for the intro text. You clearly placed a lot of emphasis on character dialogue for this, and it adds a ton to the charm of your game. I loved it. But the few typos and grammatical stumbles pulled me out of the otherwise immersive experience.
3. The game camera needs much more lookahead. I found 80% of the screen to be occupied by what my character had already made it past. Your environment is so beautiful and immersive that it is a disservice to your artists to not have the player camera looking forward into the world! It also would link to the platformer game mechanic. There is a reason why most moving-camera platformer games tend to have the player in the corner opposite the direction of movement. Not sure if you are using Cinemachine, but this would be an easy fix that would go a LONG way in pulling people into the game.

Overall, this is a model entry for a game jam. Even though you worked on a team, it really shows how much work you all put into this. It is a very impressive accomplishment that the group of you pulled off in 7 days. Your music and sound effects were aligned with the visual style and story.

Congratulations on your great entry!

The art is polished, songs are good(but repetitive) and sound effects are ok, loved the character creation, the game is well made overall.

So, there is a big flaw, for me the tutorial lasts way too long, it was getting tedious and tedious, to the point that i quit after ~15 minutes playing, the music contributed to this because it gets very repetitive. Instead of giving all the mechanics on the tutorial you should give them to the player as the narrative progresses, i know it is because it's a superhero academy, but it turns out as a big tutorial game.

I agree on most points on the feedback by in Principle Games,  you should take these feedback as constructive, analise and use them to improve.

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I can't believe this was made in a week...I couldn't even make this in a year.. The Character Creation System was SO COOL!..I just had trouble playing with a keyboard..Buttt...That's my own fault xD.. The game is Really fun to play..You should turn this into a complete game.

The graphics in this looked fantastic! The platforming felt very nice, and the level design was fun! Nice work!

Awesome game! I love the polish that this game has! I am amazed in what you can accomplish in a week! well done fire totem games :]

Also it would be super cool if you checked out my game :]

Hello! Your game is great! I love the character creation. How long did you need for that? Also music, graphics and animation are super cool! 

Hello! I played your Elf game in another jam!  This is super cool! The character creation is super awesome, I want to learn how to do that!  A tip I learned from another jam is to use a random sound array for things like jumping sounds (that way you don't hear the exact same sound every time, but a mix of however many you make)  Please check out my entry if you can, any feedback or suggestions would be great~ Good day!

I thought having Controller support was really bad-ass!

Hi. Some criticism

1. Too much text in the beginning
2. Finish [character creation] button doesn't always work. The name has to be at least N characters long - this is not obvious behaviour. I was about to quit the game because it would now allow me to proceed
3. After completing "moving platforms" part of the tutorial and seeking a character sprite again, the game doesn't proceed any further. This is the main one.
4. Pause button does nothing

tutorial is harder cuphead tutorial, frick

I've give this game about 30 minutes or so, and I couldn't finish it.

I really liked the character creator. I'm generally a sucker for character customisation in games. This one obviously is simple, due to game jam constraints, however, it works and I was able to create Poopsickle, the pink and teal, baseball cap wearing tanned and blond nonce with an earring that looks slightly baffled. He was my character and that increases the relatability of the game, in my opinion. I tried calling him Smelly, by the way, but the game didn't like that!

The initial part of the game's narrative worked OK, with some 4th wall breaking. It did grow repetitive and long later, however. From my perspective, too much dialogue, too little playing.

I used an Xbox controller to play, as suggested by the game. The game also said I couldn't complain about the controls, but I'm going to. First the good bits: the game has modular jumping and grace jump as well, which is very rare in game jam entries. Pleasantly surprised to find it here. However, there is no predictable air control, so stopping going left or right in the air immediately stops you, and you can zig zag, which is very hard to control. The same goes for ground movement, it's either all in, or nothing, making precision platforming challenging. Lastly, I don't dig the fact that the jump doesn't really have an arc. When the apex is reached, you immediately start plummeting at max speed. Arguably predictable, but not for me.

The character's invulnerability time is too low, especially when hit by spikes from underneath. This leads to a lot of multiple damaging hits in a row, with little predictability.

I appreciated the frequent checkpoints, however, I found some of them not to work, which forced me to repeat large sections.

The worst part of the player interactions by far is combat. All attacks, both melee and ranged, have substantial delay to them. It makes it difficult to predict and needlessly annoying to deal with enemies. Down and up attacks are finicky, because humans are terrible with analogue sticks. Rogue Legacy is an example of a game that struggles in this area too. I suspect this is why the dev suggested to use the Down direction on a D-Pad instead in a tutorial.

Let's tackle the premise of the game. The game is a large tutorial. From my perspective, this is a poor choice, because tutorials are the least fun part in a game. I really started feeling despondent toward the game over time due to the premise. As for the theme, it's used in dialogue every now and then, but clearly an afterthought.

The art is strange. The character looks and animates great, but by comparison, the enemies are simplistic and seem cobbled together last minute. The biggest issue, however, is with the colour palette. Everything (and I mean everything, even the UI) is 1 colour + Shades of grey: teal. That makes the BG and FG not stand out very well, and the levels look really samey really quickly. So, the art has care in it, but I don't support the artistic vision is a way of putting it, I suppose. Lastly, I think the Particle Systems and the Trail on jumps don't look very good AND don't really fit the toony art style.

Music is alright, but because the game is so long, the loop gets boring quick. The sound effects are fine until you encounter enemies. You hitting them has one of the least empowering SFX I've ever heard. It sounds like me dropping an empty can of tuna onto a wooden floor.

Strange entry for a game jam. Very large game, with little in it unfortunately.

Really good game especially for a game jam! I loved the character creator and the animations. You should make this into a full game :D 

This game was SOLID. The physics and tight controls make it great to move around, and each mechanic is properly tutorialized in such a way that there's a satisfying climb in difficulty as the game progresses!

Love how you can customize the character. Very good art and animation. The music is amazing too.

I enjoyed it!

Character design and intro look very good! The game is very challenging for me because of it's speed, but I still enjoyed it. Good job! 

Wow this game take me a while to play and for a game jam that is really surprising. First i played in browser than i died two times and the game bugged two times. So i downloaded the windows version i received the jump ability and i couldn't jump so i restart and then the games was normal. The controls was really good, the audio is just enough for the game, and the graphics is really good. The story looks like is just a reason to fit in the theme but it's not bad.

Also when i tryed to create a character with the same name of my previous one it said "This name is not available" i was thinking that this would be useful for some story thing, but i am still not sure why this happen.

Overall is a really good entry!