I love the shadowy art style, It really instills a spooky mood onto the player. Everything about this game oozes polish and game feel. I am just impressed you made this in the jam time. I hope you have time to check out my game too.

great job, art was great, very fun idea.

Well done!

Love the art! But jumping was a little weird

This is so cool and the art is so distinct and awesome. I loved the evolving mechanic, and the animation for each form coupled with the SFXes was great! great work

Great game, really good work. But it does feel a little longer than should. You walk for a long time across a relatively empty world in search of DNA, you suffocate for a long time, you die for a long time from the boss, you kill the boss for a long time. There is not enough action. But nevertheless, the game is very high quality, the visual style is very good, the animations and atmosphere are top notch and overall I enjoyed it.

I think this is a fantastic entry

Everything was very well polished and I like the concept of the creature having to explore and die in order to evolve. The map is a bit too large and empty an I think jumping felt a bit awkward at points. Also I had some trouble with the controls, switching from jumping with spacebar to clicking left mouse was a bit tricky

but overall I think its great game and I liked the variation with the boss monsters moves

It was great to see the monster evolve.

The map was probably a bit too big, I went left at first and was wandering around for a while without any sense of purpose. There were a few audio issues when the game restarted too.

I really like the idea and the boss fight was really cool.

Great work on this! The art was simple but effective, the premise was really interesting and I enjoyed the boss fight at the end -- thought it was especially cool that you could fight it at the beginning but basically get your ass kicked, definitely makes you feel powerful once you come back with more abilities. The post-death messages were a little too long, especially after you've read the text (a skip button would be nice), and having a better indicator for how much DNA you had would've helped as well.

This are just small details though. Overall a really solid entry! Good job!

Really good entry! The concept is fun and the execution was perfect, not to mention the art which was a good mix of cute and scary, and the music that kept me engaged throught the entire playthrough. I can see myself buying a full game if you ever decide to expand it. Overall the best entry I've played yet. Good work!

The sprite work is incrediable :o Great character designs brilliant level and good gameplay mechanics!

I can see you gave your love and hardwork to this game simply amazing! Also the boss attack animation is really satisfying to watch the way it rotates is so cool :D

Note : I would be happy if you could check out my game as well :d

the movement, visuals, animations, music, audio and boss fights was stunning, the DNA mechanics fit the theme very well, the fight was fun but I was hoping a sort of megaman x series kind of fight, really like how you can choose to fight the boss at the start but it will be impossible, the story was nice and simple, just add more DNA like one when you get shot from a distance you can parry or block attacks or when you get kill from flying enemy you can shoot, maybe when dashing when the monster where too fast so you can fight more bosses, this really feels like megaman x when you have to defeat all the boss maverick XD

good game :D

This is reeaaly impressive for 72 hours! The art and animations are fantastic, the gameplay is really smooth and the music really adds to the feel. The only minor things i would suggest are adding some more feedback when you are close to drowning and a skip button on the death screens. Great job team!!

This was a great game for 72 hours, well done! The gameplay was nice and smooth  and, although it's only minor, the footstep sounds really helped add something to the game. Exploration felt satisfying too, especially when discovering a new obstacle and trying to find the DNA to go along with it. It could've been a bit more unique though - it's a lot like a typical metroidvania except you have to die to get your powerup, although with that being said it still was very enjoyable. The graphics were great too, as well as the animations, being very clean and polished. The sound effects were nice  and the music worked well too, but sometimes it did get stuck repeating when restarting. Overall, though, it was a really well made game, especially for 72 hours - phenomenal work!

love this game, how you die gives you direction to evolve is a very good idea and you use it in a smart way! I really enjoyed the game!

Some nitpicks are the O2 bar, it is quite hard to notice it, I die in the boss level to realize you need to jump and get O2 before drown. I would suggest (maybe) reduce hp when you are out of O2 instead of killed directly, or add the water in an early stage in the boss fight, otherwise, it is a little frustrated that you need to redo the boss fight while the boss has only left 20% hp.

Overall I like this game, I'm a bad platformer player so I didn't get all map explored but it still one of the best games I played in this jam! I'd like to see it gets into a full game since the mechanic is very unique and has potential. say if you die more times in swim you get a longer O2 bar, or jump higher if you are impaled more times, these evolve is not needed if you are good at the game, but might give some bad players(like me) motivation to keep playing it.