This feels like a very obscure game that a very obscure game studio with a 30-letters-longs (or longer) name might’ve made during the PlayStation 1 days.
Unfortunately, you not only captured the good aspects of this kind of game (Graphics, Sound Effects, and Artistic Direction), but also the poorly-aged controls:
- It should be possible to invert both the Horizontal and Vertical camera rotation axis individually.
- It is unreasonable to perform the Mid-air Jump once it’s unlocked: It should just be a second press of the Space Bar, no additional Control key.
- The camera should not only be rotatable with the Arrow Keys, but also with Mouse Movement.
Also, the tutorial (or lack thereof) makes it very cryptic to advance past the starting island: I didn’t know about the Camera Controls until I quit the game and then saw the screenshots again, and then restarted the game, and then hit an arrow key with he expectation that it’d also move the character in the same way as WASD would.
After the starting area, the game becomes fair with the hints (they’re still well-hidden but reasonable to find). But before that, I might’ve missed entirely that the game actually has any content after the starting island, and would’ve moved on thinking it was just an art demo, and would’ve given it a much worse Game Jam rating (but not any worse Regular rating) as a result.