Cycle

Is this still a demo?

Hey, really enjoyed the demo, am trying to 100% it now, am currently at 93% map with 8/8 key items, have spent a lot of time trying to find what I missed but can't seem to find any unexplored paths that aren't covered by the yellow blocks. I don't have access to the middle teleporter in the list, seems like that's probably where I'm missing stuff. How do I get there?

what I say may sound harsh but I genuinely see potential in the game and want it to be better so I'm gonna say everything negative I have about it first

the jump is very clunky both too high and too floaty but I get it if you keep it by now cuz I assume you planned the game around it and it would be very hard to change

wall jump is very annoying to perform cuz you need to mash + I had trouble with jumping away from the wall

the enemies are just there to be there they aren't interesting at all (an exception is the dark red place and those are okay) and barely do anything from a combat perspective they were more annoyances than anything (includes the two bosses I got to I beat them both on the first try without any trouble)

charge up for the slash may be too long but if you plan on giving upgrades that shorten it then it's fine

the slash itself is too short you need to get extremely close to an enemy to hit them or you need to charge up which like I said is too long

while it's great that you have nonbinary characters you shouldn't have the pronouns of every character in the dialogue box it makes no sense from a story perspective that when the main character meets new people she already knows their pronouns + it interrupts immersion (this is just a bit annoying and I wouldn't actually care if it's changed or not just my piece of mind)

this only happened to me in the assist room but you need to make sure that the dialogue box stays on screen cuz when I was to the far left I couldn't read anything on it

now to the good parts

both the music and art are great

the ability to jump from a dash to get a further jump is great

the UI is very good (maybe make it possible to zoom on the map but not necessary

the story is interesting and I am engaged and want to know more

the secret shortcuts are great (I only found one but assume there's more)

Very cool!  Excellent graphics and sound.  I like the what I've seen so far of the setting and the premise is promising.  Good luck as you continue working!

If you don't mind sharing, did you build your own engine for this or are you using some middleware?  Either way it's very cool!

I found a bug. I wanted to sit on a bench so I dashed into one quickly then my character sat besides the bench, she was floating, it kept sitting and getting up but I couldn't control her. It also didn't heal her. I'm sorry I tried to explain it as much as I can, English is not my first language

Also maybe you can add more dialogue options with characters? For example that girl who wanted us to find her sister, we can tell her when we find her sister? I know that's like a side quest but it would add more fun, so it's not really necessary 

I loved this game a lot! That secret rooms make me wanna explore more, they were chilling. The soundtrack and art is so pretty! I don't know how to criticize a game, I hope I helped somehow

I saw you at Harukon. I was wearing the Gyro Zeppeli costume in purple and green. I wanna try the game, but the demo is a RAR file, and I have a mac. Do you think you'd port the game to mac and linux sometime in the future?

Interesting setting and quite a distinct visual style. I need to practice more for that boss... :) 

Damn did you really just delete my comment? You need to learn to deal with criticism better, man. The game's a buggy mess as it is. If you release it like this you'll be dealing with a lot worse than one bad comment.

Absolutely awesome game! I loved exploring the area and was super impressed by the art. I really liked the two main bosses, they were both very fun and I managed to beat them both on my second attempt. The secret boss however... Is complete B.S. I've tried for ten minutes, and haven't landed a single hit without being hit back. Not sure what's up with that, but I absolutely cannot beat that boss. It felt like I was attacking that boss underpowered; there wasn't time to dodge most attacks and some felt ridiculous even with the foresight of what they were about to do. I've been using the charge shot (which is really useful!) but am still finding myself getting rekt. One mechanic I haven't used is the 'dash', which is triggered by X. This button is in a strange place for me, and wasn't really usable in the heat of battle, so perhaps that's what I was missing? Another thing, I still don't know how to use items, so that is probably something I'm missing? One last nitpick is that I wasn't sure what a lot of the stuff was that I was picking up, I guess money? Would be nice if some indicator came up to show how much money I'd picked up, or if a money total was shown on the main game HUD. 

Anyways, this is a really cool game, awesome metroidvania vibes. I really look forward to seeing where this game goes =)

EDIT: Just figured out you can remap controls, I've persisted and got up to the second phase, which is even more ridiculous! 

Amazing game dev had so much fun playing it :) i hope you enjoy  my gameplay