A really cool and ambitious game! Although I think in some parts the scope might've been too ambitious, since I got stuck a lot, sometimes in places where I couldn't do anything but quit the game, like here and after clearing the poison heart in the red area. Feeling quite lost, I looked at the comments, where you mentioned Fertilization was supposed to be the first ability you obtain, which I missed entirely, getting the Vine Crook and Tether before ever figuring out what the heck those lilypads are for. After that, I made some swift progress, obtaining the climbing and Sprout ability... But then found that the latter didn't do anything? I'm unsure if this is a bug, or if I'm somehow sequence broke again, and I was already supposed to find a projectile earlier in the game, and Sprout only upgrades it but I seem unable to do anything with this ability. So that got me stuck again.

I'll leave more detailed thoughts if I ever figure out how to finish this game, but my overall thoughts is that your foundation is really solid, movement feels great, you got a cool world set up. But while the large scope is impressive, and I think attempting such an open-ended progression with skips is laudable, sadly that also means you have to do a lot of testing to make sure players can't get themselves stuck by following what they think is a natural progression path, which seems like it was hard to fit within the jam's timeframe.

Just played through this, it was pretty hefty! I think there are a lot of cool design choices in here especially in regards to the powers. There are also a ton of collectibles, and while I didn't find all of the Seeds, I appreciate that they give the player a lot more to do in the game (one of the seeds made me figure out using box pulling to create platforms before it was ever required in the game, so that was cool). The art around the Great Tree was very cool, and the characters that did exist all had unique and interesting sprite work. I also saw that the characters each had their individual personalities, with Apsis and Kitsune being standouts for me (I mean, I didn't like Kitsune's personality, but it certainly stood out).

Some constructive feedback:

- The game provides a lot of rooms and routes through those rooms, especially when your abilities open up, and that was really cool. Zooming through an early room with the rope ability or by wall climbing felt really good. That said, no room outside of the Great Tree room never particularly stood out to me or made me remember it and say "I need to come back here later." The zones each had their own color and sprite art, but I never really felt a big difference between the rooms and zones since they on the whole all seemed to incorporate all of the movement mechanics anyway. Perhaps picking a few centerpiece rooms and really sprucing them up / making them feel special would grab my attention a bit more.

- There is a lot of story here, and a lot of characterization. It's cool that you leaned into the story telling so hard and introduced so many characters, but it was a little bit hard for me to follow just because there were so many names thrown at me all at once. Like I said above, Kitsune stood out because the personality was very strong, and Apsis made me smile, but the other characters sort of blended together because they just woke up and gave me their power.

- It wasn't super clear to me what I needed to get the disabled mushrooms and wall vines working. I already thought that I had the powers for each of those, but then there was a nother power that upgraded the Nurture ability I already had. Trying to figure out what I needed to do to finish the game ultimately ended up being less of an subtly guided exploration and me just opening the map and seeing which rooms I hadn't explored yet. This worked out alright because I ended up getting some extra health and power upgrades, but it made that final power-up feel not as rewarding as it could have.

- I usually only do 3 ieces of big feedback like this, but it was a big game and the other thing that I felt detracted from my experience was the lack of enemy types. There were so many rooms to explore but they all had the same two enemies, and this goes doubly so for the Strength challenge rooms. Designing enemies is a lot of work so I can't fault you too much on this, but it was just a thought I had throughout the experience.

Anyways, it's a very big game with a lot of moving pieces. Lots of writing, lots of rooms and environments, lots of cool and well implemented abilities. Overall I was quite impressed with it and felt like I had finished a complete package when I got rid of that final corruption. Very well done.

Ok after 2nd time around, and understanding the controls better.... this game is AMAZING it has so many features and unlockable, and areas....really enjoyed the depth of the Metroidvania of this game.... with the SFX and things will travel points/saves.....really loved the saving travel points.... Great job here....I was working on a interesting saving/travel function in my own game....but it was never quite finished to mean much than a cool effect and way to "move the robot" ...lots of unfinished Metroidvania aspects of my own game....but if you have time to rate/review I would really enjoy having more feedback on my own game...So I can make updates 

This was AMAZIIINNNGGGGG. Easily the best entry I've played so far, and I'll be genuinely surprised if it does not get first place because this to me is a proper 5/5 on every category. I played it for a full hour and had a ton of fun from start to finish. The design of every room was really engaging, and the progression was a proper perfect metroidvania progression. The story was really interesting, the way it fit the theme was flawless, and it just felt great to play. You really knocked it out of the park with this one!

This was interesting... I feel like it's a little bit "hodge-podge" art style, and things are a little odd in size and relativity... other than I need to play and explore more to correctly give a better critic on the game as a whole. I kind of did a few things and checked some stuff out in early game with movement, controls, and SFX and music and everything was not bad so I am saying a pretty average 3/5 for now.... will come back and check out further once I make my rounds through all these games

Button outlines disappear when I hover over them, assets are a lot of different resolutions - I love the main character art though and the intro cutscene is fantasic!
I don't want to rate this just yet, because I could not figure out how the 'pogo' mechanic was supposed to work - I only ever took damage

This was super fun, great game.
I was playing on a controller and the character was amazing to move around, especially enjoyed swinging from grapple point to grapple point. 
The art was okay, my favourite was the fluid character animations. Unfortunately some assets(one that immediately comes to mind is the great tree) were unevenly scaled and drawn in different artstyles, which made the whole thing look kind of visually incoherent in some places.
Music was great, it just didn't really stick out and just kind of played on and on in the background, which was the intent I guess x)
The map proved to be very useful, though despite that I couldn't find the last powerup required to break those stone blocks. Honestly I would've wished for the map to be a little more compact and more visually distinct instead of just being as large as it is currently, which would also make it easier to navigate.
Despite that, this is a really good game, I enjoyed my time with it a lot, keep making games!!