The game is reallly fun!!  I love the shuriken mechanic especially. The game has an interesting curve to it. at the beginning you feel like you can just run around, no need for stealth, then it gets a little harder and you have to wait for people to look away, use smokes etc, but by the end, it was really cool to be able to time the shuriken perfectly that i could run forward and get a bunch of stealth kills reallly quickly.

my one gripe about the game is to do with the final boss? it feels rushed. the whole game we're learning all of these skills, but then at the very end it culminated to just.... wacking this dude until he keels over. but other than that!!! great game!!!!! 

As a first game jam entry you made an amazing job, loved the mechanics of the game and the abilities of the assassin like shuriken and smoke bomb the wall jump too really well made also the enemy ai seems really good and fair the art and sound effects were nice too but i have some suggestions to make the game even better first add parallax instead of a singular image background secondly the input choice is kind of weird for the jump in most cases the best button would be the space bar because is more commonly used third would be  removing the npc at the start of the level when the player already talked and heard them because it can become pretty annoying overtime, but overall really nice job.

As a fellow newbie, congratulation on finishing your first game! 🎉
But this game definitely needs more time in the oven, the wall jumps didn't feel great or responsive, I'd suggest tweaking it a bit, the art with the background just seem uncanny due to the inconsistency compared to the rest of the game, there is not much of a cohesive art direction, would also appreciate it if you allow ppl to skip dialogue or at least finish the sentence faster, cause it is quite slow for my eyes.
I have a lot more to say but I think the rest of the comments have already expressed my concerns, keep it up and I hope to see some updates!

The gameplay is so fun! I had a blast trying to complete the level as fast as possible while avoiding detection. The level design is excellent, it complements the stealth mechanics really well, with plenty of places to hide and take cover. The weapons, especially the shuriken, made me feel like a ninja.

Movement feels good overall, but I found the wall jump a bit tricky to pull off. I also really liked the brief grace period where you can still perform an assassination even after being detected, a nice touch!

That said, I’m still a bit unclear on how the detection system works. There were moments where I was sure I was out of sight, even behind a wall, yet the enemies still spotted me.

As for the boss, it didn’t quite fit the rest of the gameplay in my opinion. The fight mostly boiled down to hiding during attacks and striking when it stops, it felt a bit out of sync with the stealth focus of the game.

Still, I really enjoyed playing this. Amazing work for a first game jam entry! Praying this gets polished and published, I crave for 2D stealth based games

Very fun! The tools at your disposal are great, for the most part the controls are very fluid and responsive and the gameplay itself is awesome. Reminds me of Katana Zero, which I love dearly. Invincibility frames could have helped make some attacks, especially the boss's minigun, feel a bit less unfair and punishing. Otherwise a really, really cool submission!!

Alright, here's my feedback!

I really like how the jump feels! The gravity is well handled and it doesn't feel floaty nor bricky, which is a frequent issue in beginner platformers. And although I think the jump could be improved with a coyote time, I also get that it's a difficult mechanic to implement especially in such a short timeframe and double especially as a first game jam game, also a risk cost if you don't know how to implement it which usually spawns in some glitches, so I'm glad you spent the time elsewhere. 

The wall jumping needs some getting used to and is more difficult in the beginning tutorial areas than in the actual stealth sections of the game, mainly due to a level design issue I'll get to. But for now I'd like to say that it doesn't do the game a service to have the tutorial be a platforming difficulty spike when the core gameplay loop is centered around stealth. It could make some players that dislike difficult platformers feel frustrated and miss out on the biggest strength of the game, which is a shame, because the stealth is super fun!

The game has no AZERTY keyboard support which is a shame. I know to change my keyboard language settings to fix this issue, but not every AZERTY player knows this trick, and it doesn't even work on every game engine. I don't know how input handling works in GameMaker, nor do I know if changing keybinds is easy to implement, so I can't really blame you for this either, especially since this fix would've required more time which you had in short supply, and if this is your first game or first time runnning into this issue I can understand the oversight.

Early on in the platforming level, there is a rather tricky wall jump (with a staircase below it) made unintuitive by the character bonking their head on the platform above when jumping off. Since there is no coyote time, it's even more difficult to time that jump right, and I feel like this could've been fixed by simply adding one more tile to the staircase and moving the wall the player must jump on a bit further back– or even not at all since the player is still getting used to the mechanics there. 

In this same area, the player must jump on a very small platform and slides off it, it would've been more accessible to newer players if that platform was wider, or if the intent was to force a wall jump in this section then the platform should go even higher to prevent the player from ever reaching the top with a single jump. If they don't jump too early and bonk their head on the block above, the player often instead slides down the staircase when winding up to make that jump, which adds to the frustration in this specific area and makes it a bit unfair to newer players.

In your future games, I'd recommend you do more external playtesting, since you would've been able to catch those issues much earlier on and fix the easy ones or accommodate the level design to go around those issues. I don't know if that's what's went on, but it reminds me of times I playtested my own projects so much that it became trivially easy for me, and when confronted to external playtesting I was hesitant to make it easier because I worried it would become boring or too easy. Ironically, it is much harder to make an easy level than it is to make a difficult one, especially if it's a tutorial level or a first level which needs to teach or reinforce mechanics. But I still find your Level Design to be encouraging! Keep it up, and do more playtesting to catch any issues early on! In my experience, playtesting has also helped me be more okay with failing, and changing mechanics that don't work even if I'm attached to them, it taught me to "kill my darlings" as they say, or patch bugs which I knew were there but got used to working around, this can only improve your games!

The assassination mechanic feels really good! The sound effect is really well chosen and the feedbacks are great! You can easily understand how your hitbox looks like thanks to the smear effect. I also really like the shuriken and think it's a great idea to limit its use when on full health, incentivising players to take risks by preventing them from spamming an easy solution is really smart, and keeps the intended stealth user experience intact! Great work on the stealth sections!

Loved the concept. It's a nice game play. The wall jump was a little tricky for me, but didn't take away the fun. Nice gem! The final boss art was really funny

Edit: I finished the game. It was really FUN!!! One little thing, near the end, I got stuck into a wall, but then I "jump" out of it.