To be honest, I'm not too sure what the slide was meant for either. The lead developer told me to add crouching sprites and I programmed in the crouch, then he later told me to add sliding sprites, so I replaced the crouching sprites with sliding sprites. The crouching sprites end up going unused for this reason. Maybe he had plans for later on that weren't communicated, but I didn't have any ideas for the slide either, so it's kinda just left in as an unfinished mechanic.

Thanks for your appreciation! Fun fact: It's more specically a Game Boy Color styled game since the vertical resoultion is 144 pixels and the music and menu sounds use the wavetable channel (unlike the NES' triangle channel), as well has hardware pitch sweeps for some sound effects. They're just tehnicalities at the end of the day though. Thank you very much for playing our game!

Artist / Sound Designer here, I'm glad you enjoyed the art! It's pretty much my first time doing 8-bit pixel art; most of what I've done before was 3D stuff. Thanks for playing!

Thanks!