WOW thank you so much for this much feedback , this is so useful to me , the changes in the controls are a great idea.
the idea with the landmarks was something i actually planed on doing , I wanted to add a dinosaur corpse where you find the miniature gun and some big tree on one of the floating islands but neither the art pack nor the time where on my side so I cut this Idea in expense for adding polish and SFX ,
for the goal or destination like ganons castle in botw , I get where you are coming from but I think I have an idea for story where the whole point is the aimlessness , but your also right because the player needs an objective to work towards , so maybe I can come up with something there .
I also have a lot of Ideas for the better navigation , first I need to redesign the upper part of the first area because it is very rushed and looks very samey all the time , there are also also almost no secrets to find and enemies are copy and pasted without reason , I also think the area is way to large ,
I thought about instead of adding a map , adding a system that can store screenshots and lets you take notes and also provides a description on where to find the place ,
I also want to add a way to upgrade savepoints to let you warp to and between upgraded ones
another idea of mine was to include small RPG mechanics to encourage killing enemies , as well as a way to gain money and lose it after death but I'm not a hundred percent sure on that one , maybe something along those lines .
What I want to do now is rate other games of the jam with low ratings ( I'm currently on my quest to get every submissions to at least 3 ratings and give honest feedback ) , but after this rating phase I will keep on working on the game and maybe make it into a full one ( more full)
Maybe i will make a devlog for sharing the development and giving other people the chance to give feedback or hand in ideas , the devlog will be in written form on the itch page and I also really want to make it into video form , because its something I've never done and I want to try it .
thank you so much for taking the time to play my game to 100% and writing this amazing critique