Interesting that you thought the art direction as being somber :o! I can now see it with the cold colour palette but I thought the scribbily art style made it lean towards silly, in a way. I was only able to create a brief gesture to the story setup in the menu but I can 100% see that being too vague as well as not as reinforced with the mechanics. I did make design notes on both of those that I wasn't able to impliement and plan to add once the voting period is over.
Grabbable item wise, any object that has the light blue highlight/secondary color is grabbale, but as you noted the controls are wonkyy so sometimes it doesnt respond.
If you were interested in seeing this games whole deal, I added a FAQ at the bottom of the game page to give more direction on what to do (the game's very quick and very repeatable), but no pressure to do so whatsoever! I'm glad you checked out my game and left a comment, thank you!!
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Extremely good game! Simple yet super effective. Polished, too the point and a cute framing to tie this game together. Great work you two, very well done!
Wedding planning can be a tough and stressful time, but I hope paddle and ball find a way to talk about any difficulties and stresses they may be feeling in their relationship and how best to support each other!
There goes the bouquet, thrown bounced into the crowd of game jam characters! Landing into the hands of the next to be weds!
Agree with the comment below, the y-axis height altering character scale is a super interesting mechanic, tied it together for an interesting platforming game. Really had to judge how much distance I had to put behind a jump where I'd rise or fall! Sweet artstyle and main character too:
Is it far away, or is it small, little big bunny?
Im so glad I stuck with this game despite getting stuck on the first salt, the ending genuinely made me laugh out loud. Asides from that, the platforming post the tutorial was great, really had to focus up and I loved the designs of it!
I also love the main character:
I'll do near anything for you, Lil' Menace
Man!! Man oh man I'm a sucker for these types of games and you executed on it beautifully! Such a tidy presentation and just a unique take on a project for a game jam. Leaning into your strengths and scoping to what you can achieve in the time really worked out here!
This kind of reminds me of Kingdom Ka with the pace and tone of writing, as well as the photo usage! Also a bit of Superliminal with its occasional narration about perception and perspective (and those themes being tied into the gameplay)
I did get stuck near the beginning but I saw the comments suggest there was more to the game and after the first 4 images (barring the third), I was able to follow along and intuit what I had to do to proceed without semi-random clicking! If you wanted some unwarranted suggestions as to make those earlier moments more graspable to player, some ideas knocked around in my head.
I drew fanart of one of the slides with the part of the narration that really resonated with me: 
Congrats on making your first game! It was fascinating and I'm excited to delve into your other work.
Love the swinging movement, very interesting. I do agree with other comments with it being hard to control but I like an aspect of its fiddliness and the slow scaling challenge when you get bigger and it becomes harder to escape the police. Also like the way the string wobbles when it latches onto something!
Worlds smallest criminal!
(But that's a me issue)