Very impressive implementation. The variety of rooms and the fact that they fit together so neatly is really cool, the nightmare that must have been QAing for softlocks hurts my head (and while I personally never ran into a softlock, I do appreciate that the main menu has an option to reset). I think it's a cool blend of theme and mechanics, the time limit wouldn't make a lot of sense on a static map that I can just memorize and rush through, but paired with the procedural map it makes for a really cool concept, so good job there. Using deaths to reduce your timer was a nice touch as well.

Some areas where I struggled:

- The jump is easy to control which is nice, but not having variable jump height (that I could tell) can be finicky when trying to dodge some of the more complex spinning blade arrangements or navigate through some tight passages with vertically moving enemies.

- Similarly for the diamonds, they're fun to use, but they could also propel you into saw blades pretty easily (looking at both of these comments, it might also be that there are just some saw blade configurations that don't feel particularly good). There was one time that I diamond jumped into a new room and the momentum carried me straight into a saw blade on the next screen.

- Small nit pick, but I kinda wish there were health drops or something. I guess the HP Upgrades kind of counted in this regard, but things got kind of nerve-wracking the deeper into a dungeon you got without any real means of refilling health. And if you'd already collected HP upgrades in that part of the dungeon and are rerunning through it, there's no real way to heal up. I think it's an interesting challenge to balance, because on the one hand that added pressure paired with the time limit (which was very forgiving) forces you to "get good", but it could still be overly stressful (a quick thought, maybe each time you respawn there are "shadow copies" of HP upgrades you've already collected. they just refill one health on touch. this way there's still that tension of limited health refills, but if you remember where some of the HP Upgrades were on a given map, you can make short and potentially risky detours to try to heal yourself a bit).

... that ended up being a lot of text, sorry. But yeah, I played through the game three times and collected the totem twice (although the third time I kept getting lost and so died on purpose to see what would happen). The game felt good to play, was mostly intuitive with good text prompts and explanations, the sound effect on destroying blocks was particularly satisfying. And again, the implementation is top-notch, I still can't believe you built a procedural map generator that can generate looping Metroidvania maps. Great job!

kkairos' game! Was looking forward to playing it and was not disappointed. Art and audio were good, and the concept of a randomly-generated metroidvania is super interesting and innovative. Obviously, as in randomly-generated, it can be quirky. If you plan to expand further this prototype, I'm sure it can become amazing!

Wow, this was incredibly impressive! The simple pixel art looks great, and the level design flows quite well, especially considering that it is procedurally generated! I did run into a number of game-locking bugs such as exiting a room into a room without an entrance for the character to show up in, and accidentally jumping out of the world into a bottomless pit. But I am sure these issues can be polished out with time. While I generally liked the progression gating based on attacking types of blocks, it did make for a bit of a linear experience. I would love to see more types of ability upgrades and a more branching path structure in the future. But overall, this is an excellent proof of concept. Great work!

Okie, this one was just awesome honestly, I loved it way too much. That artstyle is just too adorable and the music is also very cool!!
Gameplay is also on point, movement feels really great, altought kinda sad it doesn't really evolve out of the very very basic. The proc gen actually works extremelly well, I'm quite surprised to be honest, amazing work on that, altought I assume this system costed actual cool habilities, since everything is pretty much just "a key to a door",  wich is a bummer, but hey, still impressive nonetheless.

That said, the game itself is still too simple for me to really have a lot to comment about, so I guess that's pretty much it.

Now to a few nitpickys tho: Both the player character and the sawblades keeps on moving during screen transitions (As in, while the screen is still pitch black) so sometimes I took some very cheap damage from either a sawblade I didn't had the time to react or to a spike that my character threw himself into before I could see what was on the room I just entered.
Also, when you die at Retriever mode, you need to manually set it to that mode again, otherwise if you just retry from the get go it puts you back into Finder, wich wasn't the end of the world, but was mildly incovenient.

And I guess that's it really. I recorded me playing if that ever sparks your interest as well, so if you do then hit me up for it.

Really impressive work on procedural generation, it's so hard to make something viable in short time.

The game is fun to play and level feel coherent (got some minor issue like sometimes take damage just after entering an area)

Curious to see more  of this game if your going for super. Congrats !

Awesome entry! This is a great game loop and foundation for some really interesting emergent gameplay behaviors. 

-I really enjoyed the procgen layouts and how you presented each "room" of just one full screen, non-moving camera and snapped it into place for the next room. 

-movement felt great

-sfx a tad loud but that's the teeniest of nitpicks

Great job! Very fun game and great concept

Sorry this wasn't clearer above but as far as I can recall, all user-facing assets are original--but the Godot-usable font was created from an image font I made USING a plugin, hence the credit there.