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.

I love the art direction in this game. The controls get a little awkward once you get all your abilities because you have to juggle the keyboard and the mouse. It would have been nice to have attack mapped to a keyboard key. It's a bold game and cool take on the theme. And again, very good art direction. Kudos.

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This was a seriously good game. A lot of games in the jam had the mechanic of learning new abilities every time you die but this one does it beautifully. I really felt like I was becoming an apex predator. The art was gorgeously simple and the music while repetitive didn't really seem annoying. I ran into a bug ( no pun intended ) with the boss where the music stopped playing but that's pretty much the only major issue I had with the game. The boss was epic and his patterns were cool as well . No other complaints other than enemies taking a little too many hits. Amazing job with this

I liked it, the controls feel good, the graphics are simple but well done, and I like how you linked the topic of the jam to the concept of evolution. I think the only problem I had is that it was hard for me to orient myself in the map as everything seemed very similar, I think in a more linear level this art style wouldn't have been an issue. But the level was not that big so it was not a huge problem anyway.