This is a hard game to review as it feels broadly technically competent but everything just feels kind of off and I frankly didn't particularly enjoy it.

In terms of basic gameplay the jump feels way too high and fast? The slime launches up like a rocket then plummets back to the ground just as fast and its very awkward to control. The static camera also just felt really bad with the extremely fast movement, it really needs some smoothing.

The visuals are I think the biggest thing where it looks solid on a technical level but I just didn't find it to be appealing for reasons I can't put my finger on in general. Some of it might have more to do with the framing than the art itself, with a lot of objects looking too small on my screen to clearly make out and appreciate the pixel art during fast paced gameplay, but it also feels like there are flaws in the art itself that I maybe don't have the experience to identify or describe.

The world design here just felt really empty and bland. Most rooms just feel like big empty spaces with a few enemies haphazardly strewn around that you can pretty much just ignore and run past with how fast even your base walk speed is. There's extremely little in the way of meaningful challenges or memorable setpieces or interesting secrets, just a lot of samey rooms that feel like they're filling space and make it easy to get lost.

Music also has that technically competent but a bit off feeling. The apparent idea of a generic orchestral fantasy soundtrack with goofy slimey instruments intruding on it is interesting and thematically fitting but the execution just didn't click. I kind of wonder if the goofy stuff isn't intrusive enough, as a lot of times while playing it'd just feel like generic fantasy music but slightly worse, and only when I stopped and actively listened to it for a second would I realize I was hearing the kazoo from the main menu theme again.

When I got to the boss I encountered what seems to be a bug where the fight started with me still on the wrong side of the gate, which led to the boss just getting stuck on the other side where I could still reach and attack it but it couldn't attack me. I also was confused for a bit about that gate even being for the bossfight as it looked identical to the walls you can smash through with the dash, but this one just arbitrarily can't be. Had I ended up in the correct position and the camera properly framed the bossfight it might've been more obvious what it actually was but as it stands it just left me wondering why it didn't break when I rammed into it until well into the fight when I realized what had happened.

If there's one positive at least it's that ramming into enemies with the dash and watching them go flying was really fun. Seeing more funny ability interactions like that could be fun, and makes me wish there was more than one ability in this version.

Okay so the game was great nice short lil play through. Also i will be 100 % honest here and wont lie or hide how i felt about the game if i am rude in any way then sorry 

Now lets start with the PROS : 

1.Music is great And we all know why (YURI IS THE GOAT)

2.Art is great 

3.Jump and attacks are cool too

4.Great world design  

Now the CONS or things that need to be improved or i felt these things were weak : 

1.The boss attacks hit before the animation and this makes the experience weird 

2.audio switching is weird and abrupt 

3.Lack of effects (i will explain this one in more detail cause this kinda held the game back) : 

a)The jump felt weirdly stiff after getting the helmet at first cause the animation without the helmet is squishy and interesting 

b)The downward attack hardly helped cause after using it i almost always took damage from the enemy 

c) The attack is practically invisible like its too tiny and personally i think it needed a longer wip thingy or more squash stretch 

d) Never felt like i was using a smile after getting the helmet (This one is not that major so it can be safely ignored)

4.the enemies are kinda fine but like unpredictable at times while sometimes even after they get hit they charge in and damage the player i would suggest some knockback or something 

And to end this off i had a fun time and enjoyed it loved the rainbow and GL for future projects and thanks for reading once again if i was rude sry 

For some reason i´m stuck, don´t know how to advance, only find someone that need help, but don´t know how to explore more or help him.