Unfortunate technical issue about the permanent pausing, which I didn’t see in the comments up front, so I lost a bit of progress, oops. I also noticed the game still is marked (DEBUG) in its release which is also not intended I imagine?

Cool concept though! You really committed to the aesthetic, even using square waves for the music. The shape abilities mostly felt pretty intuitive, although I didn’t even get the circle, but found Poly anyway. There’s definitely a few issues conveying new abilities, I liked the little bits of text written on the ground at the start, but it would’ve been nice to also add stuff like “Use left mouse button to grapple!” at the pentagon area, as I wasted some time wondering why I couldn’t attach myself to the ceiling by just jumping into it.

I also think the camera could’ve been zoomed out a bit more. Seeing so little of the screen at any point made it hard for me to really orient myself in the minimalist world. But I managed to get through it, so it wasn’t too big of an issue. Fun take!

Gameplay highlights for me include how the triangle in particular uses its shape to kind of "grab" onto platforms to get a bit of an edge, it just feels right. I'm not sure if it was intended after getting the pentagon, but jumping over the tiny, cramped spike pit above it with triangle's grabby double jump was a nifty little moment after getting denied by going through that as a square and lacking the jump height to proceed. The way you can only swap shapes at these shape swap spots made it quite fun to figure out what shape I was going to need to get past the next obstacle and actually to the next gate. This process could expand out to quite some intricate puzzle platforming when explored further with all the shapes in your tool belt.

I appreciate the visual aesthetic you squeezed out of these basic shapes, by giving them these nice gradients, presenting the shape swaps like a little confetti pop of sorts, and how they have a nice spin when jumping. The darkness in one of the area adds a pretty strong sense of being in the endgame, and the music is a bop all over. The fact that the music itself is also basic shapes is very clever!

Regarding technical hiccups, I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but it seems that dying as a square in the triangle area gets me stuck. I couldn't you can't reach any of the shape change gates as a square from the starting spawn point, it just doesn't jump high enough to get to the first shape swap spot. Might just be how the patched version handles the respawns though. Treating the shape swappers as checkpoints would probably be helpful here, given that there's more traversal and problem solving than there is combat anyway?

I Enjoyed the gameplay and the idea of using shapes as the travel method is very smart gameplay. though there are some areas where being a certain shape softlocks you out of the game unless you quit. if you can find a way to solve thnat it is all good