I gave this one a shot, had some promise but I got caught on my third battle in a glitch that stopped me unfortunately. I got attacked by a cat thing... that does a Glare attack. The glare froze my screen. I can hear things happening on screen when I push buttons but nothing updates graphically.
So critique of what I did play. The hitboxes on things were really all over the place. The mushrooms had huge hitboxes and the little green orbs which i assume were supposed to be picked up were really hard to line up for me.
The game feels like it is running really slow, but I think it's the walk speed causing that. If you hold shift the walk speed doubles which is good. The battle start effect where the screen duplicates and spreads out like a deck of cards makes my computer chug for some reason.
I like the concept of saving aliens on a time limit but having those aliens not trust you. At least I think that is what is going on here. It was a little hard to follow for me. Overall it's a fantastic effort for a game jam. I really like the music.