I really liked the atmosphere of this entry. The character art and major prop pieces are gorgeous. The little friend is a fun premise and the mechanic works pretty well.

I'll admit to not having the patience to finish. I fell back down to where you get the friend by accident, and it seemed like the only way to get back to where I needed/wanted to go, was to do a giant loop again. You have other places where you've set up shortcuts that open up after you've passed an area the first time. It would be nice to have one here, too.

My other main gripe is the movement of the character. Smaller platforms can be very hard to land, especially from below. After experimenting it some, I realized it's because the jump stops moving left and right as soon as you let off the movement key, but the walk has momentum. The inconsistensy leads to holding the left button (for instance) while jumping to get up to the platform, but because the platform is close to peak jump height, as soon as the engine detects that the character is grounded, if I let off, the character will slide right off the other side of the platform. If I tried to be gentle about the jump velocity, as soon as I let off, the character stops moving in the air and falls straight down, missing the platform from the front. I found the best way to deal with it was to always hit jump again when landing on small platforms so that I could have the character jump straight up to stop the momentum. It made the rest of the platforming palatable, but was definitely awkward.

Lastly, an aesthetic note: the platform/level art lacks the detail of the character stuff making the overall presentation inconsistent. The levels seem really bare, but the characters are very detailed.

Overall, there's a lot of good stuff in this build, and the premise, atmosphere, and mechanics are compelling enough that I still may come back to it to see it through to the "end" after I've had a break from the 40-some-odd metroidvanias I've played in the last few days ; )

wow this is one am ambitious entry... the squashing, stretching and general animation of the character is great... the controls do feel a tiny bit strange... (the attack initiating when you release the attack button felt a bit weird initially), but very soon got used to them. I'd have loved a map and and a couple more save points (I died a fair while after getting the throwing sword thing) and was a bit frustrated how far I was thrown back. 

But the execution of this entry is great! a little more polish and I'd happily pay for a game that looked and played as this one does!

Your game is cool, I like the way you make me chase a little friend, and use a blue coin (idk what is that) to grow up the bush <3 Your story is good and world is too large finally I love your music you choose too. I think you should update the how to play document because I don't know how to attack @@ I spam on my key board to know that is "Enter" button @@ and first time I can not win a rat in combat :|

Incredibly well-made and fleshed out! This was a lot of fun to play — both due to the general look of the game world and due to the sense of progression. Little things like finding and chasing the pet to unlock a new feature felt like Ori and the Blind Forest — but a new spin on it. With that said, I do have some feedback:

• There was too much delay between the attack input and the animation/hit. It made combat feel unresponsive, and I eventually just jumped over enemies because it was more of a hassle to fight them.
• I played on a pad, but never figured out the interact button so I ended up switching between each (mostly spamming buttons on my keyboard until something happened). It would've been nice if the inputs were explained in-game or if the interact button was listed on the main game page.

The sense of exploration was what really sold it for me though. There were a lot of places to check out, and I would've liked to see more!

Hi good work, at the begging of the game, i thinking it’s strange player control, but finaly they are lot of content, beautiful art i love the animation style. You have made shortcut, pet and enemies. Try to learn how to make better player movement for your next game and it will be perfect.

Hi! Please don't take this personally (especially from someone who also didn't finish their game) but I have a few constructive criticisms:

• The movement system needs some re-tuning. The movement itself is floaty and imprecise, but a lot of the layouts in your world require semi-precise to very-precise movement. Having a floaty movement system doesn't make your game hard, it just makes it frustrating.
• The controls are unintuitive. I played using a keyboard, and having to use Enter to attack made me unable to attack and jump at the same time--my right hand would be on the arrow keys to control direction/movement, and my left would be alternating back and forth between Space and Enter in order to jump/attack. Normally control bindings aren't a big deal, but they can really ruin your audience's perception of a game when they're off-putting.
• Some of the combat doesn't make sense from a worldbuilding standpoint--I can punch a hedgehog three times and it dies, and I don't take any damage, but if I accidentally run into it while trying to punch it I take damage? It feels like the attack should have some sort of weapon so that there's a logical reason why you can attack it.
• I had an issue where I couldn't pick up the drops from defeated enemies. I'm not entirely sure they are drops, actually, I just assume that from the green/blue color scheme. It could be XP, I guess, but since it's not explained anywhere I don't know. This, combined with the floaty movement, led to some frustratingly stupid deaths.
• Lastly, level design and art: there's a difference between dropping your player in a maze and dropping them in a maze with a purpose. The first leaves the player disoriented, without any sense of direction, while the second forces them to quickly figure out where they are in relation to some goal. There's a time and place for both, but I'd argue that when you use a very limited art style, you should give the player some help when solving the maze. Big landmarks are very useful; "same-y" environments are not.

Don't let that get you down, though! I did like the character and enemy designs, and I have a feeling that it would look like a completely different game had you enough time to get some solid art in there. All-in-all, art isn't that big of a consideration, because the most beautiful art can't save a boring game--and vice versa. An exciting game can be successful, even with the worst art imaginable.