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Onto impressions! I was a little disappointed the character came from an asset pack, but it fits well with the environment and I like the atmosphere - so that doesn't matter. (and I would really love to see that ledge grab)

I have one issue with the background and that's the parallax moving faster than the foreground. To create the illusion of perspective the background usually scrolls slower than the foreground. This way around it feels a little disorienting, as if you were moving in a tight circle with the pivot point in front of the screen (in that case the background actually scrolls faster).

And a technical thing: some foreground tiles don't scroll properly on my machine and frequently show horizontal gaps:

I really like the slow and deliberate controls, but they are going to be extremely unpopular if you don't polish them up a whole lot. Like adding a ton of move cancel options (like you already do for attack out of landing - I'd expect to cancel most things with a roll or jump for example) and input buffers (like still jumping again if you start to press and hold jump while falling/landing instead of requiring to press afterwards).

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PHI already covered a whole lot. I might be repeating some stuff as I list a bunch of issues I ran into:

The wall slide cancels any straight up jump near a wall (my intention is to go up, but instead it feels like jumping into an invisible ceiling):


I imagine this wall at the start is meant to force learning the attack, but it's not actually high enough (granted a wall jump is much harder than finding the attack input with instructions on screen - if taking down the wall took longer than climbing over it that could be a fun speed strategy though):

You can land with an attack and still be forced through the landing animation afterwards:

The jump characters will frustrate a lot of players as they are now, because you need to press the jump button near it rather than holding it as instructed (and expected):

Up diagonals send you down instead of up or forward, quite deadly once these get chained with spikes all around (don't mind me passing straight through here, that's just my rebinding not working with the hold function of them at that point - the issue exists regardless):

 

Alright I think that's as far as I'm going to get with this version (I stopped a bit after entering the funky house with the first non-key door).

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Wow, great job! I will listen to all your advice and will definitely make the game better.
True, GIFs are cool.