Fantastic entry!

The music is absolutely incredible! Stands with some of best of the SNES era.

Artwork is great. I love the light rays in the forest and the environment art is really cool in general. I absolutely love the color and vibes of the cosmic ruins. 
I'm guessing you ran out of time a bit (to be expected with a jam) with the some the  jumbled-looking tilesets and the underground not really having a background, but I also found it a bit hard to read what was part of the playable level and what was background art in the bow-upgrade room.

I'd also like to see the animation be more expressive and maybe less detail-oriented. For example when attacking the character's pose still seems neutral as if they are just standing around instead of putting their weight and effort into an action.

Along with that The actual controlling of the character felt a bit sluggish and not that great, especially in comparison the sound/visuals.

I'd love to see what you'd come up if you had an extra person dedicated to gameplay and to help with level design.

Great work, the music…. oh, the music, it’s so satisfying thanks mellorine, the pixel art is so good, I really love it.

Seeing the comments here maybe I miss some part, I was stuck on the frog’s area.

But it was so satisfying and enjoyable to play, I really want to play the complete game, thanks for that.

I’ve made a review of it on my YouTube channel, I hope you can watch it.

The art department needs a raise! Incredible visuals and music (nice hints of alttp there), supported by great implementation and mechanics.

The game design is great, levels are clever and the tile sets are beautiful (with the problems everyone mentioned). Combat feels super fun, as does slide. The different abilities and the way they synergize is brilliant. Cutting back on the player knockback after landing an attack could help make up for minor imperfections in the level design (like having player knockback transition you to the next screen). 

Movement seems a little on the heavy side for acceleration and on the floaty side for inertia. Controls felt tricky at first, specifically having jump right underneath your action keys, but you very much get used to it. You could add a tiny Pause sfx if there's no visual way to tell the player that the game is paused (other than no movement).

Awesome choice of synths and instruments for the scoring, and very nice songwriting experience there. The sfx were great as well, absolutely nailed what the visuals required. Reverb felt a bit off at times although it's barely noticeable so it's not distracting. Like I said, a raise!

I can't wait to see what your team makes of this game, if that's what you plan on doing! Great job with this one.

P.S: I forgot to say, big kudos for the nice amount of functioning enemies!

WOW!! This is a super polished and very fun entry!! I love how much variety there is in the world, and the movement feels very polished and fun to use to explore it, which is the main thing to get right, and this game hit it out of the park. One thing I noticed was due to the slow dying animation, you can slide into a fairy and save without any abilities. Another thing was I didn't figure out that I could use the sword until I found the bow because I was trying to figure out which buttons to press to use it, but that was just me being silly. These aren't huge problems, just something to note. All in all, super well made and executed, I love that it keeps its scale in check as well. Great work!

Art and music are out of this world! I think it's possible to get stuck right after you get the slide if you go to the right and down into the room with two frogs, if that's the only ability you have you can't jump out again. I just restarted so not a big deal. This is quite a difficult game. Sometimes I would clear a room and enter the next, and then the knockback from an attack or taking damage would push me back into the previous room to be surrounded by newly respawned enemies and they would mob me to death. The knockback is also tricky in the parts with moving platforms over spikes, the flying pigs treated me as their volley ball and literally spiked me lol. Great job!

Heyo lemme start this off by saying I had a lot of fun playing this!

Visuals and the music are stunning, I just wish you had more time to deal with the tile and background inconsistencies that ended up poking you in the eye of otherwise an amazing artstyle!

Abilities were really fun to use although I do think some specific rooms need some balancing like the one where u get the long jump! 

Combat was super fun for the most part as well which on top of visuals and abilities is the highlight of the game!

There were a lot of enemies going off screen/despawn issues which I'm not sure if it was intended or not and a lot of weird projectile hitbox issues like having a spike go through my head but not actually damaging me.

The movement took a while to get used to, it felt really "floaty" or "slidey" for a lack of a better word which I personally wasn't the biggest fan of, but it wasn't bad once I got used to it.

There was also numerous times where I just kind of got stuck into walls very early on into the game requiring a restart, on top of the jumping down platforms not working as a 1 off thing. 

Also I think you made the small "slide" corridors a bit too small for the player character, where her head ended up going into the tiles, which would also probably explain the lack of hitbox there mentioned earlier!

Level design was intuitive and I loved the lighting details!

Overall I think it's a very solid entry!

iI LOVE THE ART WTH!!!, prob the best game visually in this jam ive played so far!,  like the previous commenter said yea i think the control scheme is pretty akward, but other than that its so cool!

Could reaally use some iframes. I couldn't get out of the room where you get long jump because I kept getting stunlocked by the enemies in the previous room. I also kept having issues with enemies walking offscreen and then jumping out or shooting a projectile without me having a chance to react.

Those issues with the combat aside, this was a really solid metroidvania! Felt really pleasant to control. Visually the pixel art is just stunning, the rays of light in the forest are particularly a really nice touch. Though, there's some odd tile usage in a few spots - might just be jam time constraints showing though? I assume that's also why there's no real background for the caves.

Music was also really good! Main forest theme gave me some nice Kirby vibes, fit well with the enemy designs there I think.