Hello,
Thank you for releasing such a fun game for free. Last night I streamed your game. Overall, I thought it was pretty fun, but at times kind of awkward to control.
This game strangely reminds me of one of those New Grounds/Miniclip finds that one might stumble across back in the day. Were I a high-schooler trying to pass my studyhall time away by procrastinating on my studies, this would have been a great game.
For a free game, the presentation is pretty nice with some nice art to open the game up with.
The controls are simple to understand, but are a bit awkward at times. A minor annoyance is the upward combo requires an awkward finger dance of pressing W, mouse click, then Space. Simple, yes, but a bit tough to adjust to. The awkward inertia and floaty jump also make controlling the player character quite tough, when it is already quite tough to just focus on controlling the ball itself. This also leads to frustrating moments where, when the player whiffs a shot, then may go flying past the ball, crest over a hill top and either have to fight the inertia to go up that hill to return to the ball, or potentially be unable to go back, requiring a restart. This can lead to some frustrating restarts. I feel like, in such a fast-paced game, a single whiffed shot is already punishment enough, having a bunch of time wasted having to clamber up a hillside just leads to frustration.
Similarly, some of the "puzzle" like elements begin to detract from what I think this game does best: comboing hits together and moving fast. If there ever were an "extended" version of this game, I think having "speed run" levels and "puzzle levels" be separate things entirely, instead of a frustrating frankenstein mash of the two together.
Regardless, this was a fun, short game that I enjoyed playing on stream! (The music could use some work though...I wound up having to replace the game's soundtrack with the soundtrack for my own upcoming game.)
If you'd like to watch my experience with your game, I've linked the archive below. You can click the timestamps to jump to when I start playing your game.