I think the central idea (of the start menu being the game) is pretty cool! I think it would have been helpful to have the instructions for how to play the game earlier, as I had to just press buttons on my keyboard until I figured out how to remove characters to even get to where those instructions were. I think there is an issue with configurations where all the letters are in a line (START and ST), as I couldn't seem to move or jump with them (which made starting the game pretty hard). Overall I think this is a cool idea and with a few tweaks could be even better!
Oh no! Did you read the WARNING part in the description? :( The game has some loading issues on some machines which prevent the QUIT enemies at the begining to hit the player.
The player should lose letters in the beginning. But the collision manager is loading before the Player Manager and there are some post-build null reference exceptions. I didn't have any time to fix it, because I had to re-build the whole game to see if the post-build exceptions are appearing (and I had to use another machine to test the dev build).
ST can't jump, the idea is to travel as far as you can with ST then lose a health to switch to jumpable character. Like only STA can attack.
Thanks for the feedback though. I really appreciate it.