I enjoyed playing your game and thought the movement system was pretty solid. It takes some getting used to though and I think that's because your movement doesn't flow into each other really well. It needs a little spice to connect the pieces. Some one else mentioned momentum and that might be what its missing. 

The level design was cool but if you mess up its pretty frustrating. I like the verticality of it and don't want you to change that, but as you start building your game more you should start considering checkpoints or even multiple floors so that if your players fall they don't have to climb all the way back up every time. I look forward to seeing how this turns out!

Love a good 3D movement system. This is a great start, I think, and using this platforming to traverse environments is interesting; it pokes problem solving parts of my brain to navigate up and around the place.

The rooms here feel gigantic, which makes sense for this sort of high-speed platforming system, but I think it could help the engagement a lot if the environments felt fuller and closer together, to make the movement feel more like a tool to get around, explore, and accomplish things, rather than just the means to follow the paths to the game elements. Adding more platforms and walls around the place could help, too -- each surface is a possible avenue to get farther or higher, and I think that kind of freedom would be pretty enjoyable to play with. The run back to the start of a sequence is also a bit of a break in the flow, especially with how long of a walk they can be.

I also think this could be very fun with more of a focus on momentum and building speed, then using the wallrun to carry that speed over huge distances.

Audio would be another thing to improve this a lot. Even just a handful of sounds for actions like jumping, running, and dashing could do wonders for the game feel.

Well dang, this game actually has a Mega Man X-ish dash and dash jump working really well in 3D space. As a huge fan of Mega Man X I am probably very biased when I say that I really really like how the movement in this game feels.

It’s actually really fun working out how to get from point A to B in this game, looking around at the environment to work out what leads where. Oh, and the wall run feels amazing as well.

If I may make a small note: L and R aren’t used for anything yet anyway… maybe a way to improve camera control on gamepad would be to have the camera quickly snap exactly 90 degrees to the side when you do it? Kind of have a way to control the camera without using the right stick for during platforming or such, basically. Just a thought. Not a huge deal though.

Kind of a shame the enemies aren’t finished, I can tell that dashing around enemies after locking onto them to get behind them to avoid attacks is going to be very fun once this is finished!

Oh yeah, amusing bug I found related to the dash: Going down slopes too steep to climb at an angle can lead to building ridiculous amounts of speed.

Looking forwards to seeing where the game goes next! This is pretty clearly on pace to being something really neat when it’s done. And yes, I did finish what’s there of it so far.

I generally enjoyed this. I like the character. The level generally works well with your mechanics. The movement itself is flawed.

It looks like your airborn and grounded states are completely identical which looks and feels quite bad. Even raising the aerial max speed by some small amount will probably make jumping feel a lot better.

There isn't any kind of momentum or acceleration in the game. That's appropriate for a lot of platformers but I don't see it ever working for a wallrun centric game like this. You really need to track player velocity persistently to make the wallrun<->airborn transitions feel natural.

I would focus on figuring out the basic physics of the game over adding more moves, animations, making levels, etc.

I wouldn't worry too much about the transition conditions (like what direction do I have to move in to trigger the wallrun vs climbing) Those are generally safe to change without having to replay/touch up every level.

Enjoyed it as a tech demo, the animations were really cool despite being a little off,  the lack of audio kind of hurts it,  movement felt really interesting but could you a touch up here and there, but all in all Good job!

Some places felt too punishing, like a huge slope that sent you back to beginning, but since getting back up was fun for me, it is not such a horrible thing. Location feels like a testing area, with the potential to be something cooler like a temple or dungeon. No sfx.

 The best part is the variety of movement. With every unlock you feel more freedom to experiment with combining dashes, wall jumps, climbs. There is a lot of room to parkour, so it is very fun to watch the character move. But there is something wrong with how the character gets locked in a place when climbing or slows down after dash. I'm still not sure after all the time what exactly is it, but maybe the animations don't match up exactly with the movement or character does not have enough momentum after performing actions, but something is keeping it from being extremly satisfying and smooth. Still, I enjoyed the challenge! Combat at this stage looks like something unneccessary, only enemies in the game were unfinished, and it did not feel fun to fight with them. If you removed attack and made that doors could be opened by collecting keys it would not affect any other parts of the game, so fighting mechanics kinda feels like a distraction from fun and challenging platforming. 

Overall the game is fun, it has potential, but it just needs more polishing

Just reached the end of the game! after the big final door and the message -THE END (for now) Thanks for Playing! Altermist-

I quite enjoyed my time with it, was looking forward to the combat but found it's just some WIP dummies for now!

Even as a WIP, my recommendation is to increase the size of the attack hitbox since it seems to be too small (missed some hits even when standing next to the dummies).

The platforms you can activate, I think a blinking on-off or, better, a gradual color change could help signal they´re about to disappear.

When I got the dash, I tried dashing in the air but found out it could only be used on the ground, which is okay, but perhaps just signal to the player that it only works on the ground.

I'm gonna go against most of the feedback here since I think the movement is Okay (talking about the wall run & jump). Perhaps just small tweaks in certain movesets combinations (talked below), but I appreciate it best when I have full control of the player's velocity instead of losing some of it to momentum. 

As it is right now, I can aim my wall-jump after wall-running by just being next to the platform I wish to jump. 

Talking about wall-running, many times I triggered wall-climbing instead making me fail jumps. I really like wall climbing as a mechanic and haven´t seen it be used that much in platformers recently.

But Im not sure how to improve the activation of the mechanic since it's based on input direction and that is used in combination with wall-running & wall-jumping for certain courses. Maybe I just needed some more time with it to get accustomed to the combination, haha.

Overall, it was a fun experience and, since you told me before we thought of similar attack mechanics for the players, I'm interested to see how it evolves with combat!

EDIT (Completion time about 21 minutes)

Interesting base you have here, but I think it needs a lot of work if you intend to turn this into a bigger project.

I’ll echo the previous comments by saying, very cute model, but a lot of small issues with the movement that make it never really feel that cohesive and get you into that “flow”. But I think the other comments have given you plenty of feedback on that, so instead I’ll say that you should be thinking about what kind of game you want this to be.

Right now, it feels like a tech demo, just a linear series of rooms with jumps. Even saying there’s puzzles feels like a stretch. Do you want it to be all about platforming? In that case, is it even a good idea for this to be a Metroidvania? Would you be better off just making a level-based platformer? There’s no exploration showcased in this build, do you want that to be a part of this game? It doesn’t seem like you currently have a clear vision, which is fine for a MVM entry, but since it seems like you intend to develop this into something bigger, I’d definitely recommend you spend some thinking about what you imagine this game to really be about when it’s done.

Good luck if you do keep working on it, this could go somewhere if you commit to it!

Agreeing the model is cute, though the animations appear to be stock Mixamo assets so I can't exactly give you points for that ;P

There's a compelling foundation for the movement but so many little pieces cause a lot of friction that made it hard to really enjoy. Losing momentum after a wall run was a big one, same with the inconsistency of the wall climb. There were a lot of times where moving felt like it should do one thing but would instead do something completely different.

But, again, I stress that the foundation of the movement is really compelling. I'd love to see where it can go with some tweaking, fixing, polishing. Lotta potential here!

Agreed on comments saying the model and animations are pretty good. 

The lack of SFX hurts game feel a lot.

Imo, the movement needs work. I would recommend looking into jump buffering and coyote time to improve game feel. The wall stuff feels like it's not quite there. It's a good idea, but it needs more polished to be intuitive and reliable. Jumping off a wall run should maintain your momentum.

Metroidvania wise, this felt fairly linear too.

Overall, there's potential here, but more work needs to be done to unlock it. Keep at it !

The character model is stunning and the animations are pretty good! But is there really no audio at all or is it a bug on my end?

I've found the platforming to be difficult and somewhat frustrating. I would have really wished to be able to interrupt a wall run or wall climb at any moment (by letting go of the button, for instance). You can jump during the wall run, but it's not the same as simply dropping down and it makes you bounce against the wall, which was rarely what I wanted to do. Not being able to dash in the air was very weird too. I had a *lot* of trouble climbing the steps with the sloped one at the center, before the door with the four keys. And I had to do it *many* times, which built up frustration. I gave up after falling for a second time when you have to dash between the two keys required for the room before (the dash doesn't seem to cover the distance).

It's a good starting point but I don't think the movement is quite there yet. But once it is, it will be a very interesting game. Good luck! ;)

This was a fun little movement demo, I look forward to seeing where this goes in the future! The wall climbing and running feels pretty good and decently unique, too.

A few notes on the movement:

• Jumping from a wall run feels weird when all your horizontal momentum gets canceled by it. It just doesn’t feel as smooth as the level design would lead you to expect.
• I found that the maximum climb height felt inconsistent initially. After some experimenting, I found the difference wasn’t the climb itself, but rather whether I initiated the climb at the start of my jump or at the apex of it.
• I think a button to simply drop off from a wall without jumping would be nice, especially for times when I didn’t mean to grab onto it and a jump would send me off and away from the platform I was on.
• Attacking could still use some work (but I also acknowledge that it wasn’t exactly the focus here and is still unfinished.)