Interesting feedback.  There's probably room here for some how showing the player what their current momentum is so it's more clear.  The player has a momentum range between gliding and diving, which maxes out at a terminal velocity.   Coins fall at their own speeds as well, with their own terminal velocities (visually distinguished by how fast they spin).   So how fast the coins go by is partially determined by how fast you are falling... this is true for all coins, but some of them are falling faster/slower relative to the player.

The floaty controls were a design choice.  Aiming to feel like what it would feel like to actually skydive, but that's definitely not for everybody.  I also considered doing a more cartoony approach (think Goku- or Iron Man-type physics), but ultimately wanted something more "realistic", in as much as that is possible in a 10 day game jam.

Thanks for checking the game out!

I spent (too much) time trying to make music and just don't have the skills for what I had in my head.  But I realized immediately after the deadline that I could have made a track of whooshing/blowing wind that would have worked well as a more "natural" feel.  Slightly raise the volume while diving... that would have been a simple solution to at least have something playing in the background.  Alas, we live and learn.

Thanks for playing the game!

Yeah I didn't implement a "skip to the next scene" button, but if you press Q during any part of the opening narrative, you can skip the whole thing.  Any of the end of game scenes can be skipped as well.

Thanks for playing!

Lol, originally I was going to have the ground just overtake the screen with a thud, just like you say.  With the weird angle I used, it looked super weird.  Having the character visibly splat on solid ground also seemed... grizzly.  Thus the ocean splash.  Solves all the problems in 4 frames of animation.

Thanks for playing!  Yeah the SFX/Music was planned, just ran out of time.  Definitely something to work on for next time.

115 is really close to that special ending... but yeah you really gotta figure out the diving to make it work.

Every good franchise needs a mustache twirling villain.  Twirlstash will return...

I totally agree.  I had lofty goals for the music, but simply ran out of time.

Thanks for playing!  Off to check out your game now...