What an awesome lil game! The umbrella mechanics are really unique and mesh perfectly with the post-apocalyptic acid-rain world. The pixel art an animations are great, especially the various umbrella attacks, and the drinking animation! I nearly gave up on the first boss because I was hitting her for 3 damage each time and she was hitting me for 40, so I had no idea if I was doing it right - but then I won! I ended my session after encountering two different "crouch" areas that I couldn't figure out how to crouch through - for some reason my guy can't move forward while crouching - unless that's a power up?! Either way, it's clear a huge amount of passion and energy went into this project, fantastic job!
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Sliding is a powerup, you get it in the area above the save point right before the factory. You need to grab the enemy there to get enough height to jump over the wall and get the powerup.
In hindsight i probably should've explained the grab mechanic better, especially since this is the only time you're actually required to use it.