Very interesting to see a movement shooter metroidvania! I like the pixel filter, and although the environments feel a little bland, I can't say much, as my 3d modelling skills are non-existent. Just a few things:
- Harvest, at least with the first gun, is literally useless, since the player can move so fast when moving anyway. All of the harvest-gated areas can be skipped with diagonal running (holding W and D or A at the same time), even straight from Grey to Blue without gaining any abilities, although the jump is considerably tighter.
- I struggled initially to tell what was the harvest bar and what was the health bar. Even a small heart image beside the health bar would help to distinguish them, along with a flash on the harvest bar when you hit enemies.
- The snowmen sinking into the ground is just annoying. It can be fixed by just entering and exiting the room, but why?
- LOADING DOESN'T WORK. I mean, I believe it might have worked on my first death, I can't remember exactly, but every other playthrough, I had to quit the game and start all over again, re-entering my settings too. Which lead to me skipping all the way to shotgun as mentioned earlier every playthrough. I once got to Blue's savepoint in just over 30 seconds, but there's plenty of room for optimisation.
- It's really hard to tell what the upgrades in the pause menu are. I never figured it out in the end, except for the blindingly obvious heart.
- It's kinda hard to tell if you take damage unless you're staring at the HP bar. Even a red screen flash would help.
- I can appreciate that it was the last weapon, but the sniper rifle has no harvest special.
- Uh, was there a way to switch weapons? Because if there was, I missed it.
- The game doesn't fit into the theme (except for the name pun).
- Finally, this is completely my fault, but at the ending I softlocked myself because I skipped slide. I couldn't access that cool-sounding playground :-/
This game definitely has a lot of potential! I can't wait to see more of it!
