Yes, yes in many ways. Oh, I adore this entry. The level design feels clever and there is much to see. The reveal of the Park made me giddy up and I knew that I was in for a treat. The presentation makes me nostalgic and sets the tone right. Nails it, even. Controlling the marble feels just right. The areas feel distinct and have their own thematic puzzles, and the different combinations of elements surprised me in a good way. The little pointer on the checkpoints indicating points of interest is a helpful touch. Also, the music slaps! I want to praise it much more.

I sadly must admit that I got stuck after finding the Wood and Gyro marble one hour in, and then softlocked myself a few times. Luckily nothing major, just reloading the save got me back on track. The levels do feel spacy after rolling around much. I sadly am pressed for time and can't give it the proper review it deserves, but what I've seen definitely won me over!

Hit credits, cool entry! For reference, my playtime was 1h20m, found Wood then Gyro, then got pretty lost lol. But found my way eventually. 

First of all, the music is fantastic, the Vault theme goes absolutely crazy. I was literally hooping and hollering when the guitar solo came in. Looks like Cammy does a lot of custom Doom music, so this makes sense. The sound design is really great in general, and all the marble noises of the different materials go along way to selling each "character". And I'm never going to complain about an N64ish aesthetic.

You *nailed* the feel of the marble, I think it was the perfect amount of weight, momentum, acceleration, air control. It's a joy to control, and the hover of the Gyro is really excellent too. Unfortunately, I think a lot of that work was let down by the level design. Due to the game being a Metroidvania, the areas need to be traversable in multiple directions, which results in just a bunch of flat ground most of the time. It rarely takes advantage of the fact that you get to play as a marble. I was hoping for more slopes, ramps, maybe a halfpipe or some boost pads that accelerate you ( the boost jump things were fun! )

But honestly I think my main issue was just feeling like the entire game world needed scaled down like 33% percent or more. So much time is spent just rolling through flat space. And when you're not sure where to go, or you need to backtrack to find a barrel to switch to Lanky Kong, it does eat up a *lot* of time. It really took the wind out of my sails about 20 minutes in or so. And some water being Death and some being more level was a little confusing at first.

I generally liked the puzzles!  The couple ways you can interact with any body of water was an especially cool realization. And I think each marble definitely had charm. The ****SPOILER**SPOILER**** final marble being breakable is a funny detail. ****SPOILER**SPOILER**** And they look great and animate well. I think it was a great choice to give them facets, and not be fully round, so the player can visually see direction and acceleration on the character.

Overall great work! And I think a good use of the theme. If you want to keep working on this project, I think this can be a really solid full game!

Really enjoyed the DK64 style switching.  Puzzles were good, not too hard.  Camera controls didn't feel natural.

- vvCephei

Really impressive, love the different marbles such clever design, the camera felt natural to me, and playing on a controller was surprising fun (I was expecting to be an entry that I had to come back to when I'd dug out a mouse), I would have loved a map or even just a compass in the corner to keep orientated though as was easy to feel a little disorientated (especailly to someone with as little spacial awareness as me)

Played the web version and all ran pretty seamlessly for me I wouldn't have known if I hadn't read your page that any of the rendering was "nerfed". The marble mechanics (which I think are new for this jam) are really clever and I had a (very) brief, look at the slime games and it feels distinct enough to be a game in it's own right, I was a bit worried when I read your game page it was going to just be a cut down demo of existing work. but clearly a lot of love went into taking that core and making something unique for this Jam.

Great Entry.

Wow, this is awesome! Shoutouts to Cammy, the Vault theme is gonna be in my head for a while. I love the retro aesthetic of it all, very convincing, really feels like a forgotten game from the late 90s, like an alternate universe DK64.

The marbles themselves feel really satisfying and tactile. The sound design and the subtly different physics for them are great. I love the wooden one especially, it feels super satisfying to just barrel it around.

The main thing I think could be improved is the overall structure of the world. There’s quite a few ways to softlock yourself (luckily none I found that couldn’t be fixed with a reload; the funniest one was dropping into a frozen part of cistern as Glass, causing a permanent loop of deaths), I found a ton of difficult to reach unlocks that didn’t seem to do anything (especially in the Cistern, lots of bars opening, checkpoints appearing, that I didn’t need at all to progress) that just obfuscated the real progress, which was at times hard to find. Finding out where to go for the 5th marble was a bit of a frustration point, but from there on out it was smooth sailing to the end.

Still, this was a super satisfying entry that I enjoyed a lot. Impressive amount of content for a jam game too! Really great work.

An enjoyable entry. The level design felt tight, and the automatic camera was a nice touch; changing between marbles to make progress is an interesting idea. 

Side note:

I'm not sure if this was intended, but in the Cistern area, there is a small gap near the bounce pad past the waterfall.  I got stuck there and had to restart the game.

At first I was like: "Wait, where is the MV part of the game, but then I got to the hub and everything made sense.".

I really like the retro art style of the game and also how polished the game is overall. 

My only critique would be that some passages feel a bit "stretched" every now and then. 

Still: really a jam project to be proud of. 

The sense of wonder and mystery is apparent from the get-go, and I think your approach to minimalism really helps on that front. Everything feels ethereal and mysterious in a way modern games often don't because fo their visual fidelity. Great work!

I'm here for the Banjo-Kazooie vibes! The first thing I did was enable the googly eyes ;)

The handling of the marble and the sound design are spot on. Each material feels different and just right. At first I was worried it would be more of a platformer than a metroidvania, but the world quickly opened up and felt interconnected. The puzzles were pretty good too.

I greatly enjoyed my time with this entry, though I felt lost after the gyroball. There were a few puzzles in the cistern I couldn't solve but it didn't feel like the gyro was the answer to any of them... But I would have definitely persevered if I had more time. Great job!

I really like the vibes of this and it feels great to play. Cool concept having different material properties for the marbles be your interchangeable abilities. Turns out I might be terrible at it but I haven't marked you down for my skill issue! Reminds me of Glover in a good way.