The movement on this feels alright at first, but the jump feels a bit small and stiff, and the wall jump in particular kind of just... sucks. It takes painfully long to actually climb anything with it, and I nearly gave up on the level built around it because of how tediously long it took to get anywhere and how awkward dodging the enemies on the walls was with such low maneuverability (in the occasions where it even felt like they could be dodged, which seemed annoyingly inconsistent).

In general the levels feel way too large compared to the player and camera - there's a lot of big open empty spaces that are kind of boring to traverse and blind falls off massive cliffs that really didn't need to be blind. This isn't a huge issue at first when you have lots of movement abilities to make getting through the rooms faster and more interesting, but as you lose abilities it grows increasingly tedious to get through each area.

I think being totally linear and having each area focused around the ability you're about to lose kind of weakens the "reverse metroidvania" feel. There's no sense of exploration, and I don't feel like I'm being meaningfully restricted by the abilities I'm losing since each area is clearly themed around one and only one of the abilities - so it feels like a disjointed sequence of platforming challenges rather than an inverted metroidvania map.

Visually the game looks nice enough and is fitting to the theme. I did have one visual glitch where the screen would flash black very briefly during each screen transition, which was quite jarring. The music is pleasant and didn't wear too thin even with there only being one loop, so good job there.

Interesting theme interpretation. I enjoyed the game despite it being quite laggy. There’s a decent amount of content: three bosses and levels that test your abilities. The walljump boss was a pain, but I beat him after a couple of tries. Maybe add the ability to shoot in the opposite direction while wallsliding? Most of its problems stem from lag, other than that, it’s a pretty solid game.

This is a great take on the theme! And also what I choose to believe Samus does after every Metroid game. There's no other rational explanation.

I feel like I don't really have any new useful criticism to add, although I don't think I had as much of an issue with the game's jankiness as the rest (despite playing on web with a keyboard and mouse). Some additional enemy variety in each area would be nice, but that probably exceeds the scope of a game jam.

Great work with this.

Absolutely love your take on the theme - the journey already ended and now you have to return everything. The game had its frustrating moments, like the platforming, the hard-hitting enemies and no aiming flexibility, but it still kept my attention. Nice game!

My thoughts while playing the game:

• Web version is too laggy to play;
• It's downloading at 20kb/s tops, so I'm coming back later
• Okay downloaded
• UI animations are a bit slow
• The dash animation is too abrupt
• I discovered the walk jump at random, by just jumping around
• it's easier to just ignore the enemies than fight them
• having to click to respawn every death gets tiring
• the only feedback for hitting the first boss is watching the lifebar, and the hit area felt unforgiving (it felt like I had to hit the max height of the double jump and shoot exactly at the peak to hit)
• I am kinda stuck in the beggining of floor 5 because I went foward after the boss with only 1 HP and there was no checkpoint to heal and changing floors saves your checkpoint but does no heal, found a checkpoint
• You can kill enemies before they appear on your screen by just spam shooting while walking
• the maps are very long and kinda empty
• you can kill the boss from out of your screen
• the wall climb does not fell good enough for how much we have to use it
• everything takes too long
• the wall climb boss is pain

I like the look of the game and what I saw also was fun. But I just walked to the left in the beginning of the game, defeated two enemies, and then there was a dead end. Also I was unable to go back to the previous area, which is why I am a bit confused. 

For the menu: you should take the log of the sound scaling, because dB is a logarithmic scale. In other words: small changes in your sound setting, change the sound massively. 

Still Cool Game!

I’m enjoying this game, but I’m finding it very laggy in both Firefox and Chrome. Every time I shoot my gun, it seems to cause a lagspike, which, as you might expect, can cause some issues. Is there a downloadable build as well? It might be a WebGL-related issue.

EDIT: I beat the game despite the lag. Which should tell you that I liked it! It was difficult to manage lag on the walljump boss, since often I would just teleport into the laser, but I found a way to manage it, haha, a unique skill to have to learn.

Cool concept! Aside from the afore-mentioned technical issues (the music also didn’t load) my main gripe would be the level design. It’s rather linear, and the final level was mostly just trial and error. The presentation is really solid though, and it’s cool that you got 3 unique boss fights and unique level gimmicks into this. Definitely very minimalist, nice work! Hope you’ll add the final 3 floors, very curious what will you do for a boss fight where you don’t even have a gun.

(P.S. please don’t show a “Continue?” screen after every death, just automatically continue, pretty as your fade-in effect is, it got rather frustrating, haha)

I really enjoyed the interpretation of the theme and the combination of graphics and audio :)