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Interesting story you have! Though some parts are unclear. Like, whats up with that 300-ish day gap in repair logs: did they succeed in preventing Forks from constant damaging? Or perhabs they were on a vacation? 

What kind of research the crew did anyway? I guess it was some kind of biosphere research of an alien planet? 

And about their notes: how couldn't they take notes if they literally sent reports? It means they totally could just send on Earth scanned copies of research papers, doesn't it? Or did they want to take the originals because of sentimentality? 

Finally, what did the Twig achieved when exiting the lab if it's on an alien planet anyway? When turning the main generator I thought that the robot would send some signal stating that there are some cool energy-generating plants (and researchers could return and thus get a Happy Ending yaaay) 

Visuals

Story aside: art is cool, I've been surprised by the game even having an animation. BUT there's an absolute lack of sprites when characters talk. For example in Forks' memory card: Characters (I kinda don't remember the names but that's besides the point) go out of robot's view and talk about the nearing research founds cut-off, dialogue gets pretty heated but the sprites remain happy. Would be cool if at least it were visible which character is talking.  Also there's a lot of problems with z-layers between Twig and random boxes, especially those stacked ones.

Also the doors between rooms could be more visible (the vertical ones). In the first room I walked around for some time and by some coincidence noticed the door lol.

Oh? There were 3 people in charge of art? Well, good job keeping consistent style! (except the art at the end but probably just rushed?) Would never thought there were 5 members in the team tbh. The end would be a cool place to put credits, but description is also fine I guess...

Controls

There is a gamepad support??? Yooo letsgoooo!! Oh.. it's not 100% and sometimes I was forced to use the mouse in the inventory but still that was cool. Though the walking animations felt bad when using joystick. 

I guess you used something like "

if direction.y < 0: play('up')

elif direction.y > 0: play('down')

elif direction.x < 0: play('left') 

elif direction.x > 0: play('right')

else: play('idle')

" So when going diagonally, lets say left-up, the 'up' animation will always take priority. Its ok with keyboard input, but with joystick player can go left and a little bit of up resulting in chracter mostly going left but having an 'up' animation which looks wierd. To fix this you can do something like "if abs(dir.y) >= abs(dir.x)" and then check separatly for vertical or horizontal movement  :^)

Music/SFX

It's good. Music is good and the sfx are good. Sorry, can't give much of a feed back on this one. But maybe its a good thing? Imho audio doesnt have to grab player's attention. It's only bad when it's too repetative or abscent.

I think it's everything I had to say, congrats with submiting your first GJM entry!

byeee

this was so good the story and the way you incorporated the charging was awesome I am in love and the music and SFX so good, great job

I always marvel at devs who are able to put so much heart and feeling into a game jam game like this. Really really well done!

OH its soo GOOD! I LOVE the overall color palette and that still shot at the end, for however scetchy and rough it is, is BEAUTIFUL!

This game is adorable and it's clear you put a lot of love into it.
I feel a bit stupid because it took me a while to realize I could also recharge the robot at the giant flower, so I was speedrunning every time I entered a room to return to the original charging room hahaha.
I would honestly love to know more about the story you've created and what happened. 
You've made a great game, and the theme is very well implemented. Congrats team!!

Edit: I really liked this game a lot,. For now, it's one of my favorites from the jam. I don't understand why it has so few ratings 😭 The image you chose for the cover is super cute but I feel like it doesn't stand out among all the other games in the jam