Here's my notes that I took while playing the game:
- A fast paced movement shooter shouldn't have such floaty jumps. Increase both the gravity and jump strength.
- The explosion VFX doesn't fit the game at all and it's a bad attempt at being funny.
- Failing a jump OR accidentally falling into the pit SHOULD NOT KILL THE PLAYER IMMEDIATELY. This is terrible game design especially combined with the fact that you need to start from the beginning every time you die. It makes the game much more tedious to play for no real reason.
- The theme is very poorly implemented IMO. You could have replaced or even removed the doors in your game and could have gotten the same game. There's no mechanic regarding the doors, they just exist.
- Game looks great and I like the artstyle, but I'd add some "speed lines" when running fast.
- Adding a dash and making the rooms bigger would definitely improve the game. It currently feels really claustrophobic without much room to dodge the enemies, and resulting in stupid deaths like falling into the pit. (yes I'm still mad about that)
- The TV enemy is sick, although very hard to dodge.
- The iron door enemies' aim is way too good and they deal too much damage, causing the player to focus on them at all cost, which could be good, but it isn't, because after you kill them (at least in the earlier phases) the rest of the room becomes a cakewalk. I don't know if there are more enemies in the game because of the really unforgiving deaths.
- The chair enemies are really boring. You just like... jump over them... They are really helpless and should get buffed. Like maybe they could jump to stop the player from jumping over them, or they could have a short dash sometimes etc. Just any way to make their time closing the gap between the player easier.
Overall, great in visuals but has a couple game design issues that need to be fixed.