Based on your page description that this is inspired by old bargain bin games, it's brutally difficult to judge this based on its mechanical merits 😂

The gravity-heavy jumps with slow lateral acceleration, punishing spike hitboxes, and level design providing challenges with low ceilings and hazards that are difficult to jump around, these could be things that need tweaking or they could be entirely intentional to create that feeling. My suggestions lean very heavy on the mechanical side, so I'm left with not much to say I'm afraid lol, the only thing that seemed definitely a bug was the bridge at the end. I didn't get the key right away and the bridge was already blown, but the collider was still there so I could just walk to the left and fall to my death to retry instead.

Great job on this, I enjoyed playing it!

Jumping and air movement overall feels really awkward. The acceleration upwards is rather slow and you fall like you're carrying a comically large sack of rocks with you. It's almost like the speed for jumping and falling got mixed up.

Besides that... Not a bad game. But requires a LOT of precision.

I wish we didn’t have the flashbang transitons, that kinda tooks me out already from the game even before starting. The platforming is overall nice, had stage design ideas, the death maze though was not really fun to me. Overall cool idea which could use some tuning here and there.

Graphically, except the player sprite, we have a cool tileset, nice colors, nothing to really dislike.

SFX and MX were okay, I kinde feel that some of the track parts are to harsh compared to others, but nothing offensive.

overall cute puzzle platformer!

This game really nailed the Gameboy feel! The platforming took some warming up to, but in the end I was definitely enjoying the challenge.

I'm not sure what I did in the Egypt level, but the bridge at the end disappeared while still being "there" and a checkpoint prevented me from going back to get the missing key. I tried restarting the level and got hit with a panic.

Thanks for making this! Awesome submission.

Music was great. Level of detail in the intro was impressive. I found the platforming tough. Was it built it in GB Studio? It really nails that old-school Game Boy vibe too.

Really fun platformer, the intro graphics looks great, and the dialogue really adds to it.

I also did not realize I had a double jump at first but that's all part of the learning process, an original gameboy game would not inform the player of this either.

The over abundance of spikes and platforms that will get you killed is some sadistic level design that I respect.

Overall I really like this one, I don't see a ROM File on the itch page currently and would LOVE to add this to my flash cart and play it on real hardware.

Enjoyed the platforming aspect a lot! Very coded to odd-school platformer vibes, with some decently hard parts throughout. Really enjoyed that you had an opening cutscene, and it felt like I was doing a temple heist.
Main piece of feedback was how sensitive the spikes were at points; it felt like you could just walk to the edge of the starting area and it would kill you. Nice work! :D 

I liked how you introduced a little storytelling in the game! Though the controls felt a bit off for me, specially the platforming felt unfair sometimes due to how the acceleration and jump speed works. But great job nonetheless! 

I think this a decent game with mostly good level design that genuinely looks and feels like a Game Boy game.
I just wish the game's platforming physics were a little better and less stiff (unless that was intentional to fit with the old man), while the art direction could have had a bit more love put into it.
I also feel that using the double jump skipped some of the challenges and dying in some levels means you have to do them all over again (but not all of them and I'm glad the key is stored even if you die). There was even one point where I had to make a leap of faith.

Otherwise, keep up the good work and I like the main character.