Ok, after finishing the game, i can confidently say that it's great. The mix between Megaman and Metroidvania ended up being better than expected. It liked the map design in general, it felt varied and well paced. Visuals were great, hope to see that expanded and with more tricks in the future. Also, shoutout to the music, that was one of the best aspects of the game. Also the bosses were on the right spot of difficult, but fair, so they were good.

What i appreciated is that the game gives you enough freedom to tackle any area and boss you wanted to focus on without needing a power up, outside of some areas for collectables or to make exploring easier, which is something hard to balance in general, but you managed to make it work in your case. It helped that the movement was well adjusted and smooth.

I only have a a couple of observations in general, nothing big thankfully, but still worth noting:

• For some reason, performance tended to tank in a few areas, specifically during the heated areas, probably because of post processing. Outside of those, performance was pretty normal, outside of a few hickups here and there.
• First boss felt way too easy.
• The camera was a bit unhelpful during the platforms area, due to how difficult is to tell where i'm going to land. Maybe you could zoom out to make the area more manageable and/or do some tweaks to the camera's behavior.
• For some reason, there are not sound effects during the boss fights, whereas with any other area, said sound effects were played as normal, or maybe it was just me.
• Some shortcuts were reseted once i left an area and then returned.

I can't say much about the anticlimatic ending, because i understand you ran out of time, and also because i laughed at how unexpected that was. So there is that.

It was great in general, congrats. Hope to see more of you and of this game.

I'm a big fan of classic Mega Man and X, so this was nice to see. The movement felt instantly familiar, which was nice, the graphical style is cute too. Overall level design seems solid, with only the Quick Man laser area sticking out as a point of frustration. I'd say the main thing overall that's missing is polish. I think it would've been better to have a smaller map, but polish up the things you have more. Stuff like how non-ceremonious the bosses and enemies are when they die, but also just core physics stuff like getting stuck on walls, levels spawning you in the wrong location when you travel backwards, etc. I also think the timer didn't add much to the experience. Overall, the idea of having a Mega Man styled Metroidvania is really solid, and you're well on your way there, but I think you would've benefited from a smaller scope with more polish. Still, I enjoyed my time with it despite the imperfections and the lack of a final boss (hey, that's gamejams for you!)

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, but the music was great too. And just for reference, the ceiling here seems to behave like a spike, it damages and respawns you.

Very impressive work! Was able to beat it on the harder difficulty on my 2nd try, which I think says quite a bit about the balancing. I thought the bosses were fun and fair, and the design just generally feels exactly like your inspiration. I did find the implementation of the theme very superfluous though, the timer didn't really add or detract anything to the experience at all, it was kind of just there. But that aside, keep working on this this project really has legs! I also very very highly recommend you use WebGL to make the game even more accessible so you can get more people playing the game and providing feedback

Loved this game! It needs a little bit of smoothing out of little things here and there... but I enjoyed this a whole lot for what it is...had a lot of great things about it! This is the style and classic Metroidvania style I hoped my own entry would have in the end as a final boss stage.... with the timer and classic feel

Will come back and try to get further to the end of this! 4/5

Will be interested to try the different Difficulties settings

I like that the boss was easy enough to defeat, and how the game stages with ladders and such after that with structural changes happening after key checkpoints

The infinite wall jump is a little janky looking but understand its purpose ...unless you have time for a  more traditional wall jump -> like back and forth between walls

Definitely loved the music. It was nice to finally play after seeing all the progress you posted. I will say that I was unsure of what the crystal powerup did. I thought it was for surfing safely across spikes. If so, it still needs a little work, because it was working for me. The bosses were easy enough fights and their moves sets and tells were executed well. I did have a lot of trouble in the fire section and getting to the boss in that area. A bug I did notice is that the second power up, the explosion shot takes out the save spots if you shoot them. Ran out of time because I shot one as i was running to refuel my time. Obviously from my score, I definitely missed a few optional rooms. There was also a camera bug in the water section. It only happened once, but i died and then the player was never in camera view so i just had to run the clock out and restart that area.

Overall, there's still some bugs to fix, but I always enjoy your entries. I say this is one that can be spruced up and submitted to the SMVM. If i remember anything else or you have questions, just hit me up on discord.

i couldn't figure out how to play no controls worked for me.