When there's three heart pickups before entering a castle, you know things are about to get real!
What a fantastic and complete game.
- I loved how you let us get a glimpse of unreachable areas before they become reachable later in the game.
- Lots of rewarding upgrades.
- The bosses were interesting and different from each other, but they were not too hard, which is very good for a jam game (you can't expect people to spend hours on a single game).
- The length of the game was much longer than expected, but I couldn't stop myself from playing. I managed to beat the slime king but couldn't continue from there.
You really hit all the right spots for a platformer/metroidvania.
Really well done!