Unfortunately, I could not run the html version on my Mac. So it took a while till finding a windows PC to run it.

- The variety of the enemies and their AI is pretty decent. Not much to mention here.

- I think that the control is perhaps too fast. Very fast jumps and high gravity without truly being a precision platform game.

- A map would really help though the game ends up being very linear It really have very little challenge towards exploration.

- The choice of the sprite size with respect to the screen size could be made better. Perhaps that is the reason why it feels like the character is moving too fast.

- The art was pretty bleak and I think that one of the rules was that all the assets were to be made during the jam. Regardless, it was difficult to distinguish different areas of the game.

- The boss was a bit repetitive and not the most intuitive but nonetheless playable.

Overall, a pretty solid entry with significant room for improvement. I look forward to a full version.

Pretty good! I thought the player jumped a little high and moved a little fast for how small they were but it was still fun, and fighting the enemies feels satisfiying.

The music, sound and graphics were nice and fit well together. I liked the boss at the end.

Nice game! It has a very well defined aesthetic, the contrast between the black and white is pretty strong but since the art is simple, it works pretty well. 

Movement felt too fast for my taste at first, but then I got used to it.

The audio suits the game.

Overall good !

Great game! I love the aesthetic, decent variety of enemies, and I like how the boss becomes harder. Although the aesthetics might suggest a more 8-bit style soundtrack, I think this music suits it very well, quite epic in my opinion, and very well used.. My only issue is the vertical movement of the camera, as others have mentioned before. But besides that, this is pretty fun and a bit challenging. Well done!

I loved every second of this! The only thing that needs improvement is the camera: seeing it closely tracking the character’s position as I fell down from great heights caused me a bit of motion sickness (I guess I’m just sensitive to it). Also, when I attempted to make that long jump with all those spikes after acquiring the double jump, I would sometimes respawn on top of the spikes. Fortunately, I didn’t take any damage when that happened, so I could safely jump back to a safe position.

All in all, excellent job! And thank you for providing a native Linux build!

Very nice

Hey, liked your Game. My only problem was that the player can get a hit 2 in a short times in a row. Maybe thats the Idea of the Game and im only to bad :D. Overall a solid first Metroidvania. Cheers

Loved the game, did a video of a 100% run 

What an awesome little game! I really liked the simple art direction and color palette, it reminded me of something like a Downwell metroidvania, which is great, even if it did come slightly at the expense of making rooms a bit more samey. The short story was intriguing and the animations were excellent. I especially loved the player character's attack, its animation and how much polish went to really perfecting it. Beating up enemies and the fun boss at the end was a breeze in only the positive sense of the word.

The little music you've got here was also really good; I don't really like how sometimes these metroidvania just try and emulate that snappy/catchy Metroid Prime vibe by prioritizing their melody and techno sound instead of actually capturing the atmosphere, which you/your team definitely did better than most. Really enjoyed my brief time with this one. However, I'd like to make a few politely critical notes:

I personally wasn't a huge fan of how incredibly quickly you gained speed in the air, and I overshot my precise jumps a few times in places where it didn't really feel like I held it for too long. While I think the surprisingly high jump height relative to the player's size is fine, I'm not quite sure if it works alongside the very fast air speed.

I also would've hoped for a bit more interesting selection of items. Seeing as this game is quite short it could've benefited from two upgrades that were more distinct, so they'd break up the game's pace in some different ways. Maybe you could've rolled up the two current upgrades into one unlock, or given one of them to the player from the start, so you could then have another that did something completely different. It's nothing bad, not at all, but I could've seen something more making this world even more fun to backtrack. Really liked the game nonetheless!

Great game! The limited color palette works pretty well. The game is quite challenging and fair for the most part. The wall jumping sections were difficult due to the camera movements. The boss was good but difficult to hit without getting hit.

Simple at first glance, but very well executed! The controls were snappy and responsive and the gameplay was challenging, without becoming frustrating. The boss fight had some cool pattern programming that made it quite interesting—thank you for the generous supply of checkpoint/healing stations. I also liked the music so much that I spent extra time on the title menu to hear it.  

It's like old game from nes and Hollow Knight. But platformer part is strange, because it is both convenient and not convenient.

Making 2D Metroidvanias is often difficult, not only by its complexity, but because there are so many similar games on the market...

From the Depts is an inmersive and very fun experience, driven *specially* for its design and 1-bit pixel art (the music is also really cool)

Congrats Pandoria because you've been able to differentiate it from the rest, and that's actually the trickiest part!

I really liked how juicy this game felt, the fast fall speed kept things really snappy!  The opening narration was a really nice set up too.

I think I would try and add some vertical dead zone to the camera,  when the character is center screen and jumps a lot and fast the camera moves up and down a ton. Really liked this game, awesome job!

I completed it, it was pretty nice!

I was immediately surprised and pleased by how the title screen set the mood. This is something I found again when the boss appeared. Really nice staging. I also liked the little narration framing the adventure. The visuals themselves are minimalist but grew on me, especially the player's animations with a special mention to the upward and downward slashes, which are very cute.

More environmental flourishes to dress up the big empty rooms would have been nice. Maybe statues from the lost dynasty? ;)

I've found the controls a bit difficult, especially because I couldn't get my Xbox gamepad to work. Going fast and jumping can be a bit disorienting an nauseating as the camera moves a lot. Terminal velocity is also very large, so falling from heights is not a pleasant experience. The wall-jump and wall-slide feels a bit too abrupt. It's also very easy to get stunlocked to death and enemies don't drop health so I quickly stopped fighting and simply avoided them. The boss's sprite and patterns were nice, though it just disappeared on defeat, which felt anti-climactic. It was surprising and a bit disappointing considering the attention given to its appearance.

It's also more of a pure platformer than a metroidvania. I don't remember being ever offered multiple paths to explore at the same time. Though I did get the double damage powerup simply by wall-jumping, which doesn't seem intended but provided a small bit of sequence-breaking satisfaction. I liked that there was two paths to the double jump, one way more difficult than the other, but it doesn't reward you at all for choosing it. It would have worked better if it had let you grab the powerup earlier than intended.

The game did freeze quite a few times (presumably to load stuff?) but most of the time (save for one big noticeable exception) it was during room transitions, so no big deal.

Overall it was a nice, short experience. The platforming can be a bit challenging and frustrating, but it doesn't overstay its welcome and it has good vibes, so recommended! Good job ;)

Very nice game!

everything looks good I have nothing to complain about.

And I like to boss design and move set are very goood! it has many attack patterns but is fair and fun to play

This game feels amazing! Wow, such good enemies, bosses, checkpoints, it has it all. Controls feel really good, I could feel that coyote time helping me so good job

If I had to offer some advice or tips, it would be very hard. I would say since the jump is so high, and the camera follows the player tightly, jumping can be disorienting. But this game is really so good! Great job!

Just wow, the quality of this game is amazing!
You and your team did a great job in everything from the way the world looks, how the music and effects sound, to the combat and movement and produced a fun(but difficult) game. Definitely one of my favourites from this jam so far.

This game was great! Loved the animations and overall feel! Great work. Fun gameplay and boss fight!

Great game! Well executed. I would propose to improve the camera to follow more smoothly the player's movement, most specifically while jumping. Congratulations!