For the old manuscripts say REVenge devours minds and yet... The brain screams "C-C-COMBO!!" as it tosses it around inertly vivid externally beautiful imagery. And yet persistent mind behind killjoy's eyes still starts and starts again, still rolling from previous failures. Still trying to push that [J][J][J]oke in time or to catch a bloody breath or waiting to get out of the well. For the mechanical voices scrubbed its mind to leave only violent bliss. As organic voices babble time curls into its bizarre villainous shell. As they, as manuscripts, as the universe, and as this everything ends with "Go FISH!"

The tutorial is really nice, as well as the characters. I’m glad you gave the option to skip the dialogue as I had to sit through it for most other games so that’s a great thing to have. Music felt really fitting and it visually looked good.

My first issue was the “J” key to attack, the swing felt really hard to hit, and when I’m going at a high speed and pressing it, more often than not I miss the swing as it basically needs near pixel perfect timing. When failing, it also makes the game extremely frustrating as you lose all momentum and basically have to backtrack and redo it again. And with how slow the momentum is to buildup, it basically meant running, gaining speed, hitting a wall, then having to build up speed again. I definitely feel the attack should be more forgiving, as even at times I hit the blood cell and still get damaged, losing all momentum.

The game is not easy, and it is very common to lose momentum from random walls, to blood cells etc. So I feel a way to “reset” instead of having the player walk back would be good. I do know that you reset to a checkpoint after a few damage taken, but I would rather it be like Geometry dash where you die immediately and go back to the checkpoint without delay. This way, you don’t have to feel like you always have to backtrack after a failed momentum jump. As I’ve been “trapped” in areas a few times, where I have to backtrack all the way to a wall, and move forward at full speed and jump in order to just make it over a wall, as movement speed seems to also affect how high you jump.

For a game that is built around momentum and speed, I feel you did a good job making the player feel good going at high speeds, all that’s left is better level design to let the player keep high speeds for longer. This game has great potential though, and with enough polish, I could see people trying to speedrun it.

The characters and writing of this game were really well done, and the meta 'tutorial' conversation with the player was worked well. I also liked that you made it possible to skip the loading of the dialogue for faster readers (/people that want to skip it too, I suppose). The music was great for building the atmosphere, and the aesthetic felt really cohesive.

I got up to a combo of 25 while being bouncing into the white blood cell roof in the section where you need to avoid the bouncy enemies, so that was neat. Think that was the highest I got it!

I'm not really a platformer, so I don't know that it says too much, but I wasn't able to get to the end. I really want to see how the story ended, but I found it really hard to time my swings with the fast-paced movement, camera flipping when turning, and the brief freeze that happened when swingin' the bat. I wasn't very good at preserving my momentum, which I think made a lot of the movement puzzle sections quite hard, I often resorted to trying to 'ladder' my way up, rather than getting the timing right on the jumps.

This is a really slick entry, full of personality, and I can see so much potential in it! Great job to everyone on the team!