I think I reached the ending of the game (Defeated the boss, got to the shopkeeper, entered the brick house). The art style and music are pretty cool!

Gameplay feels very slippery with the attack moving you so much, but also being the fastest way to move around. The levers also seem to have very small hitboxes. I thought they didn't work because I kept missing them since they themselves don't react to being hit. 

I recommend giving rollerskates to the protagonist (or making a game where the protagonist wears rollerskates), because that attack = movement mechanic ended up being fun

This game… Well, it’s not quite a “game” is it? It’s more like a moment. A moment in time where one finds themselves asking many introspective questions, such as “what’s the meaning of life?”, “what is a Metroidvania anyways?”, “why in this game is there a single brick house you can enter, with nothing inside it?”, and most puzzling of all, “why is the downloadable executable called “index.exe” like it’s a web build?”

This… moment, has no interest in answering any of those questions, but it does offer the tools for the player to do so themselves. For you see, it appears that the downloadable build of the "game" is a debug build, and comes with the ability to view a console window where secret messages from the developer can be parsed.

So, with that in mind, what’s the answer to all this then?

…the game wasn’t finished in time. Most ways in which you were probably already aware of before submitting. It’s difficult to write much of anything constructive in this case. Regardless, I’ll list down a few of the things that stood out to me.

The player character’s design is cool. I know they were supposed to turn into a dragon or something, but to be honest I kinda like them as is.

The one music track here is neat. Kinda reminds me of Pokemon, although I suppose that tends to be the case for me with a lot of JRPG-esque battle music. I did notice that it fades out after some time then starts from the beginning… and that perturbed me a little.

There's a drop shadow, and a realistic directional shadow. Very peculiar (also the drop shadow looks kinda weird to me).

There is no physical collision on the levers, you just phase through. Seems odd for such big levers.

It seems like those giant doors can be opened with no requirement? Or at least, that’s what it seemed like, but I’m not sure.

Spamming the attack is faster than walking; It can even function as a janky dodge.

I realize there was probably supposed to be much more to the single enemy in the game other than just being unthreatening fodder, but throwing around crowds of those things into the air is still kinda fun in a primitive way. 

The shopkeeper's design is cool…although in this state there is no shop for them to keep, as that part is unfinished. 

The boss fight thing’s visual design is kinda... endearing in a way, although it kinda looks like it too was rushed out. The fact there is a boss at all though is impressive in its own right given whatever troubles I assume must've happened during development, even if it’s a pretty simple boss.

This momen—excuse me, this game has no form of an ending, and it doesn’t even really fit either the “metroidvania” or “magical girl” genres. That being said, it still has neat aspects to it. I imagine there was supposed to be a lot more to it than there ended up being; it would be neat if you worked towards that after this jam I feel like.

P.S. This isn’t even close to your biggest concern with the game, and you might already know this but; if it wasn’t clear from that intro, I believe you shipped a debug build of your game. Even the debug console is included where you can peer into the output of all the “print” statements the code runs 👀. Just felt like pointing that out.

“Dragon Girl Punches Traffic Light People” 10/10 premise for a game

Obviously, it’s really bare bones, but I can’t say I didn’t laugh a lot throughout my time sliding through walls while launching everything in front of me into the air. I couldn’t figure out how to activate the lever though, hitting it didn’t seem to work, so I didn’t get super far into the game.

10/10 would dab dash through traffic props again.

Joke aside, while it's clearly barebones, there's a foundation to work on. It's quirky enough that it actually gets funny. The movement is uncontrollable, which makes meaningful fights a bit annoying. I'd also like to add I spent at least 3 minutes on each lever, and I couldn't confidently say I understand how to activate them even now. Regardless, we do get funny moments from the unfinished aspects. Good job.

Sad thing it's unfinished, it looks pretty nice, and the music is very cool!

I really like the design of the traffic cones, they're aewsome, and it's very satisfying to do a bowling strike and send them all flying, it never ceases to be funny x)
I was also surprised you guys managed to include a fully functional boss, and not a bad one at that! It just kinda drags on for a little too much tho, there is a reason Nintendo games usually gives you only 3 cycles when you depend on waiting for specific conditions in order to damage a boss, specially ones that are mechanically simple like the one you brought to class today.

The whole game feels a little sluggish, wich is not a bad thing by itself, it's just that the character's animations convey a different feeling, the walk cycle doesn't quite line up with how the character accelerates and slides on the floor. The level design is also a little too big and expansive for this kind of movement I feel, I think with how the game is set up it would have been better to just move at constant speeds rather than having acceleration at all.

Also, don't use invisible walls, they're lame! I wanted to jump on top of the cars and climb the wall on the boss arena, I was extremelly dissapointed that I couldn't! It doesn't matter that "I'm not supposed to go there", if it doesn't look umpassable, it shouldn't be!
If you really want your players to not go to certain places, make the walls bigger, or find another excuse for such! Measly baby traffic cones ain't stopping me, they're 400% jumpable!

Either way, congrats on submiting!

The web version is very laggy for me. Maybe make it download only?

The models are sick and the style is pretty nice to look at. The game is clearly unfinished, but i hope to see you guys finish this! :D

Liked the music too <3

Pretty cool game!, while the game is clearly unfinished rn i do really like the modesl and the textures, the gradients on the textures are really cool, though the web version was REALLY laggy for me for some reason?, maybe its just a me problem but thats yea, this could turn out really cool if expanded upon more

I like design of the char. Are you gonna update the game?