I appreciate your input! I'm glad to hear you liked the level design, I've put quote a bit of time into it and scrapped many prior versions. Though, the next update will have a few of the more difficult jumps in the first couple screens made a bit easier, if not more obvious to new players.

I've never heard of Blackthorne, but I'll check it out. 

Yes, that bug has been with the game since the beginning and is due to the nature of how the ledge catch and climb System works. It used to be much worse, but I've gotten it down to a reasonably rare level so hopefully within the next couple big updates I can weed it out completely with enough small adjustments. 

I'm glad to hear you liked it enough to revisit it! The final game will have more polish and will have a bunch of really tough challenges, such as no checkpoints, blinded mode, reverse mode, and no walk or run mode, to named a few. When the game is fully released on itch and steam I will also be having a large giveaway for the fastest time submitted within the first month of its release with a prize from $1,000 to $5,000, depending on how many sales I get in that month. We also plan to have many more installments in this Shadow saga of games following Shadow and his race within the darklands and their history, so, if you're interested, stay tuned, we'd love to hear from you again on a future project. ^^

I appreciate the input. I've also got quite a few complaints about how quickly the difficulty spikes. By the next big update shown in the description of the games page I'll have added a tutorial and will have toned down the difficulty of the first few screens a bit. I've been struggling with with whether I wanna go full rage foddian game or if I wanna focus on the replayable speedrun aspect. I think I've officially settled on the latter.

I'm glad you had fun. 

This will probably be largely the final UI design. I want the user interface to be fairly minimal. However, I may have a controls screen like the one in your game, it's a pretty good idea I didn't think about. The loading and menu screens will also likely be updated a bit with the main menu obviously having many more navigation options than just start game.

I'm also very proud of the ledge climb animation. The lore of this game really relies on the visuals, so I'm glad you liked them.

I do plan to add a jumping sound and more sound with, for instance, the shadow colossus's laser or give Albedo her own ending music for the credits. I'll make some interaction sounds with the menus when you click a button or something. I may also add the occasional cave shake sound play, or perhaps just some more cave ambiance. I was going to add a sound for every time the player impacts the ground, but this game is just to fast paced when you get really good at it, so it was just a constant sound that was more annoying than immersive.

Thank you! And thank you for playing. Good luck on your game as well. If you think you'll be interested in playing further at a later date, then the final game will be released sometime late next year after a handful of larger updates where I'll hold a giveaway of $1,000 - $5,000 for the fastest time(s) recorded or streamed within the first month of the games release.

If you don't mind me asking, could you tell me roughly how many screens you got passed?

Thank you! I appreciate your input! I also thought the beginning levels were fairly difficult or advanced for the very start, but, with checkpoints and much later levels following a decent progression, I actually kind of like it being that tough from the start. It's meant to be a difficult game. 

I'm glad you liked the level design, its gone through some DRASTIC changes. There are still some tweaks I'll likely make before the final game is released.

Yes, the glitching into ledges has been a bug that's been with the game from the beginning. It has to do with the nature of the action, so it's a tough error to fix. It used to be a lot worse. Luckily I was able to bring it to a manageable level before the voting began. 

Thank you for playing! ^^