Wowwww this is a really cool!! Incredibly visually polished game.
Loved the visuals of the map slowly revealing itself - very cool effect. But it did start to lag like crazy the longer I played until it was like a powerpoint slideshow towards the end (you'll see in the footage after like 4 minutes)
Visually super impressive... Love the lighting and colors! But it didn't exactly feel like an authentic NES palette or style. Don't get me wrong, I really dig the style a lot, it's quite beautiful, just felt very much like a modern game with all the bells and whistles like specular highlights, shadows, etc.
Gameplay wise it was also pretty fun. The platforming was nice but superjumping off enemies was much too difficult to get consistently so I didn't really go for hunting many hidden gems.
REALLY nice job with the visuals and I really appreciated all the details of the lighting effects. Very artistic use of the CRT shaders and loved all the specular lighting on all the textures. The angel statue with all the candles stood out as a highlight for me. I can see the Animal Well inspirations throughout! Very well done.
Here was my playthrough: