pro:

• pretty good execution as far as gameplay/mechanical basics and controls
• good aesthetics
• solidly on-genre
• pretty well on-theme i'd say!

con:

• a couple of crashes, once on a reload I think and once when trying to reach the end of the game

conceptually kind of wasn't my thing. not terribly by any means, but i suppose it might have done to have a game be slightly brighter or otherwise more quickly readable if i'm going to be chased fairly constantly by enemies that one-hit me

Solid overall. Really dug the aesthetic and mood and controls were good. I would probably urge you to rethink the combo of central enemy mechanic and the un-lit-ness of most of the game.

Wow, really loved this! The atmosphere is oppressive and full of dread, I just about screamed the first time I encountered one of the enemies. Figuring out ways to lure the enemies around in order make a window to hit a switch or grab a power up makes for some nice, lite puzzle solving. The character movement also feels really great, with lots of juicy feedback on jumps and landing. One minor piece of feedback, which might just be personal preference, is that there were a few times when I wanted to double jump, but was too close to a wall, so I would wall jump outwards into an enemy. This could be solved by having to hold a directional arrow into the wall in order to wall jump. Other than that, great little bit-sized game! I'd be interested in seeing it expanded upon with more power-up types and level variety. Great work!

Short and sweet, that was good. Really fun game to play, movement felt great and juking the ghosts out felt really awesome, and the hitboxes are on point for cool looking close calls. Love the squishi boi char too, he's adorable.

Not a lot to say about it tho, it's still super simple honestly, but that's not a bad thing by any means.
Only critique I really have is that the ghost sounds are kinda very weird, and also a little too loud so they block off the music, wich is sad because I was vibing to it. The atmosphere didn't really creep me tho, but it might be just the very music's fault as well. It gives way more of a sense of "chill mistery" than something actually dark and scary.

I got the "try again" bug a couple times, and as far as I've noticed it glitches because after pressing the button the game unpauses for a bit before reseting so sometimes you just die several times before respawning and that might mess up the game's brain a little, but that's just my theory.

And that's all I have to say really. I recorded my run if you wanna see it for anything, but it was pretty chill so nothing outstanding about it.

Por sinal, linda foto de perfil

Nice. The atmosphere and feeling of dread work great in tandem with the art. The difficulty felt fair to me as well (considering 2D platformers are often challenging for me). 

There were some parts of the music which felt a little happy given the environment, but that could be considered creepy as well. 

I wonder if you could keep your powerups upon death? I got the double jump, died, I realised that I'd have to go back and grab it again. Maybe there's a mid ground?

Overall, great job!

I love the concept but theres just a couple things that just made the experience a little rough. First is the menu on death - its something I'm never a fan of and especially not in a game where you die in one hit like here, as it just makes deaths slow and annoying. The other is the abundance of dead ends, which are never obvious due to the darkness effect. It lead to a lot of unfair feeling deaths where the ghosts cornered me in an area I had no way of knowing was unsafe. Atmosphere is generally great though the music feels strangely upbeat at times.

really fun....

Oh did I say fun??? I meant stressful.... But also (still) fun

Good Job!!!

Excellent work! I really enjoyed your art direction for this entry - the tileset and background art helped lend to the dark and mysterious/scary atmosphere that you conveyed in the world. 

I had a sense of dread as I was exploring, and I legitimately screamed when I began being chased. The chases felt exhilarating and also terrifying when the enemies would cross through doorways to pursue me!

There were a few times where the jumps felt a little *too* punishingly difficult with 1-hit KO, as sometimes I would save and enemies would be just outside the safe area, so getting out was a lil dicey. But overall, I really enjoyed the level of difficulty, and the controls had a nice amount of responsiveness and precision.

Woooo this game deserves a 5/5 in Sensory for sure! The enemies, SFX and level design all contributed to some high-quality atmosphere building right here. I like the difficulty curve, and save & load also worked perfectly smoothly even on Web!

One potential issue I think players may run into is that if you save with enemies right nearby, it may cause a softlock where loading constantly gets you killed with no way to escape. I never actually encountered this, but I think it's something to keep in mind. Maybe make the save points be put in "safe rooms" that will despawn the enemies when you enter them?

Overall, awesome work!

The atmosphere of this game was really good and kept me on edge the entire time!

Having the ghosts constantly follow was very intense, which was fun, although I could see it being a bit harder to handle in a longer game.

The difficulty rose with each key which was a great feeling and tied in well with the overall tension-filled feeling of the game.

very cool! a little tough for me, but still interesting

I really like the art style and the music meshed well with the atmosphere. I think the most important piece of criticism I can offer is that you should increase the damage you take before dying. I think 3 hits should be the minimum. This gives the player some time in figuring out their strat. Also, the ghosts continuously following makes this even worse. If you didn't know you can use a VisibilityNotifier2D to pause their behavior once they are out of the viewport, which would work well with your game and how the rooms are designed.

Congrats on submitting!