The theme and mechanics are very cool. I very much liked the bestiary as well, very charming. I personally would have preferred WASD for movement, Space for jump, and Shift for Dash, but there's nothing wrong with the presented keyboard controls either.
The text is all dots for me, which I took to be a quirky "He is a primordial being that speaks languages we don't comprehend and also likes to hum a lot" but the preview images show dialogue in those spots. I was particularly confused when the game over screen had only dots for text lol. I see that others have had this problem on certain browsers, so I can confirm this problem can occur on Chrome.
Overall, even with the browser text bug, I'll be rating this one pretty highly, great stuff.
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Thanks for the interesting review!
Honestly, that's not a bad interpretation haha, I wish we had thought of something like that for our story! Unfortunately, that is a bug with the Webgl version of the game when played on certain browsers. So if you're interested in reading the dialogue you can check it out in a different browser maybe! :D