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I want to understand this game because of how nice it is, but I can't seem to understand anything that's happening

Thank you for your feedback, 

basically it's a game that revolves around the city darklight, the protagonist enters the city looking for his lost brother. He figures out that his brother has been held captive by the Red Hoodies (antagonists). The citizen (npc) then narrated the past saying that the Red Hoodies are the ones that cursed the city by overheating it. This overheat can only be survived by the king of the shadows and his bloodline. So after a minute you can witness the true nature of darklight (the red screenshot) with ghosts.  He dies saving his brother and the entire city at the end.

I do understand the levels are quite complicated but it is quite intuitive.  

Controls:

WASD -> Movement

Space -> Jump 

Space  x2-> Double jump 

L combined with any of the movement causes the player to dash in that respective direction (inspired from celeste)

J combined with any of the movement causes the player to attack in that respective direction.

Special Cases

On getting caught with the drone, the dash is replenished and you need to attack to get out of it. On leaving the drone hit the dash button again to fire in the direction maintaining the momentum. 

You can checkout the entire gameplay of the game here