Nice game! I’ve played many jam platformers but they were quite rough and too static, so the unique elements (water, falling leaves, moving lava) in each level made it very dynamic!
I discovered you could jump on your own sword, Super Mario Odyssey style, a bit late, but it’s not required in any of the puzzles.
There were a few sections that seemed impossible to traverse without being hurt, I’m sure there a way but sometimes it looks like you have to stand on, like a half tile to avoid getting hit by the spike enemy falling from the sky, or plainly avoiding the spike tiles on the green planet.
Without up/down attacks it’s also hard to defend against enemies falling from ceiling or when falling on them.
On the blue planet, if you lose the bubble it becomes quite hard in the middle of spikes, you must decide whether to backtrack or keep going on… I wonder if it’s be better being punished by damage but keeping the bubble (but then it would break the mechanic and other parts of the level); or having lower spikes to jump over them.
Otherwise the checkpoints made it not frustrating so I could just go on and finish every planet. Clearly bosses would add a lot, but you may have to rework the move set at this point (up/down attacks maybe?).
Bugs
Bug: I could stand on destructible rocks on the red planet.
By the way, I noticed those destructible rocks in the hub and on other planets, but with no explosives nearby… I thought character would unlock a bomb power, but it didn’t in the end.
One bug when running the HTML version as standalone on PC (at least on Linux + itch app) -> there game window appears at 16:9, too big. You can shrink it manually but if it’s too small, scrolling bars appear. I tried to shrink it as much as I could, but I still had to keep a white bar at the bottom, otherwise a vertical scrollbar would appear on the side…
Looks like Password is generated but you cannot enter it?
I see skills in the menu but there are not implemented yet?
Too bad we cannot unlock the purple planet for now! Waiting for the post-jam update!