so many characters and assets - was all the art really done during the jam? 

that's incredibly fast and well executed for such a short time. good job!

Pretty cute experience this is. 

I liked the clean art, the platforming controls felt  quite good. 

Controls overall where a bit over the place, I felt like. I had trouble selecting answers, pretty much throughout the game and on some points I gave answers without even being able to see what I had selected. 

The Items collected were a neat Idea, getting a little something for each friend you met, some Items where super useful, ( the pillow? was borderline Overpowered haha) while others I found to be included as a one off joke (the fart[?] from the mole or sneezing from rabbit) 

In the rabbits case it halted my Gameplay a bit, trying to figure out if it had any effect on anything, like the pillow jump. Next I thought, maybe it's for solving puzzles down the road, which would have made it pretty similar to our game actually.

Hope I don't rub you the wrong way saying it like that, but I think feedback has to be a bit harsh to be effective, I wouldn't write such an intricate review if the game was bad, after all! :) 

Summary:

Adherence to Theme 

• Was excellent. Hard to miss.

Game Design 

• It's pretty solid for what it is, little cute journey you can go through, but without the Story, the Gameplay would've been very inconsequential, which is probably better for a Jam game than a game that is too hard. 

• I found some key-binds where inconveniently placed and moving with the arrow keys felt wrong  after years of WASD.  For example I could sneeze with W but had to reach aaaaaaall the way to p for a double jump, which I think was used once to close a gap and get another Item, when In essence that could've been done by pressing jump twice, realistically.  

• Some Platforms where frustratingly placed. Most jumps weren't hard at all, due to the first upgrade being a high jump but I hit my head quite a few times along the road, which could've felt better on the long run.

Originality

• Very Original Character Designs and the collection mechanics where quite unique I thought. 
• The Story was fitting and pretty upfront, the conclusion gets one thinking a bit.
• The Gameplay overall was inspired by the greats, which may seem unoriginal but I think it's something that doesn't need to be new all the time, as long as it's executed as well as it is here.

Style

• Very nice, crisp Pixel art. Good color use, I could always make out Background, Foreground and Characters.
• Bit small the canvas (I couldn't play in Full Screen?) so it was hard to make out what some characters where looking like on the first glance.

Great game, although I couldn't get to the last character because my character was too heavy, and the game crashed at the end. Overall, though, best one I've seen so far in this jam!

The selection mechanic is really cool. Loved the art and amazing sound design! I wouldnt give player so many items though, maybe just boost their jump permanently or something like that. Right now there are not many places where you actually use the items.