Need to start off by saying, this is BY FAR the most underrated game I've encountered in this entire jam. It deserves WAY MORE attention but being a download only severely set it back.

First off, everything it did right or did well. The 2D art and animation, completely from scratch (WHAT?!), the parallax in the background, the environment, the aesthetic, all of that fit together so well. The voice acting (AGAIN. WHAT?!) and sound effects were great. Georgie's sound effects while jumping, the voices of the other characters, the voice of Georgie while doing his abilities and talking to said characters, and the background music was phenomenal. Then on top of that, the actual mechanics of this game. The platforming was so well controlled and consistent, it felt good to use, and it NOT ONLY supports controller but EVEN HAS WORKING, DIFFERENT LEVEL VIBRATIONS FOR DIFFERENT ACTIONS AND JUMPS (I am freaking out right now, it felt SO GOOD with my controller).

But I do have to mention some opinions of mine. Unfortunately I didn't actually read the description of this so I was going into this completely blind, and found a platformer which was seemingly missing checkpoints and I had to deal with some frustration from having to go all the way back to the start. I usually like exploring so if there's a deep pit going somewhere I want to see if it's a secret area or just a death pit, I was punished for exploring in this. It was only after I read this page that I found out this is intended, to make it more rogue like. I guess that makes me understand it more but I was definitely bummed by not being able to explore without major punishment. Maybe having areas to avoid be spikes instead of endless falls would give better indicators, because with this kind of movement I'd definitely love to explore and do parkour for hard to reach areas! And I wasn't able to pause the game, but that might've been from a time limit with the jam.

Overall, phenomenal experience, just wish I could've had better indicators for when to explore and when to proceed as normal! And with everything made from scratch you all should be DAMN proud for having made this in such a short amount of time!

So, some things to take into account:

- I would add a checkpoint system (or at least an easy mode that has it)

- Fix the resolution problem since the game was way too big for mine and I had to guess where the platforms below would be so I wouldn't fall to my death-

Aside from those, loved the game. The intro was pretty cool and it's tragic how you get a sad cutscene each time you die- Keep going!

The start cutscene didn't resize so i couldn't watch it. Otherwise the gameplay feels good and smooth. The art style, music and sfx are also great. Sometimes i couldn't know where to jump because the camera was hiding that block. So if you make a way to look down that'd be cool :)