Energy Swap

Lovely platformer! I included it in my GM48: Colors are Important compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/VmlMQ0caULs

This was really impressive for being done in a weekend. Did you even sleep!?

Nice menu system. Music does a good job of setting the mood.

Good level design generally, though I did get stuck trying to sequence-break using a wall jump in an area that I think was made for double jumping :) Also, I think I remember a few of these rooms from super metroid ;)

"thanks Sanic el mierdas for the song." lol (using a controller)

• Options, gotta press A then left and right to change an option, then press A again. Feels a bit strange. I'd rather either be able to directly do left and right (but then showing left and right arrows to indicate it's the correct control) or directly A to switch modes
• you can go below back? xD
• start to restart the room? Feels odd :c Especially since it heals you. Makes you press start at the beginning of a room to full heal freely.
• The background has too much contrast, it gets distracting and a bit nauseating. It's not 1 bit, so you could have used grey for the starts
• I wished the camera was smoother, with lerping, as it felt a bit too snapped onto you.
• Speaking of which, the camera jitters when changing rooms (been there, I know it's hard to set)
• Also when moving up, it doesn't catch up above you, so you can't see spikes coming from above
• The sound when getting an item is... not on par with the background music. It felt.. mediocre in comparison :/
• I wished for longer invincibility frames
• The map is a super nice touch, but I wish it could show you rooms you didn't visit, or only show the rooms you visited
• The boss attack patterns are weird, as he teleports while doing that up and down pound, it's kinda unpredictable. It's as if it punished you from attacking him from below, but it feels a bit extreme

That said, the game is a rather good metroidvania. This is a hard kind of game to do and you follow the right principles. The level design for instance was perfectly adapted, with places you recognize and remember to go back to with the appropriate upgrade. The boss was well balanced and felt like a boss, that was perfect. My gripe, design was, it felt a bit too close from a metroivania (aside the color mechanic, that was a nice twist, but not that innovative) and is a bit too expected, as a space metroidvania (enemies/players are generic in that kind of premise)

Likes: The general feel of the character going up and down slopes feels just perfect.

Having a menu system! Fantastic and the biggest one having a control pad support, I don't see why every game doesn't support, it's quite quick and easy to put into a game. But platformers need control pads to really enjoy for me.

Start like field makes the game feel more mysterious and suites the music, without it, it'd be abit flat and static.

I like that the enmies have health bars that go up and down, it's well placed and executed well.

Shooting up down left and right feels great too.

Things I either didn't like or would change The biggest thing I found frustrating and which made it so I didn't want to complete the game was the camera, it hid too many enemies, like if I see a ledge to jump up to , I'd press jump then the camera would follow me up and I'd go flying into an enemy I didn't see, or the ones that fall down, I'd go up a slope and the camera conceals them til it's too late, a few deaths were not my fault but rather the camera.

There was a strange bug where if you jump under a platform you kinda float and come back down, it's because the jump isn't being cancelled when the player touches a platform while going upwards, it's only a small issue though!

I pressed start to change my control pad B to X and it restarted the section, I figured coz you had a start menu I'd be able to either go there or change it from where I was.

I hope this feedback helps! Overall I really liked this submission I was more impressed with the sheer amount of content, it's crazy this was done in just 48 hours! Well done!

Your game is a decent Metroidvania, with snappy controls (weird choices on the keyboard bindings though, using space to aim) and a small progression system... but nothing with colors in my opinion, which is a bummer.

The energy swap, apart from the final boss, quickly feels tedious as it is just switching before shooting an enemy most time, and doesn't use colors (you could replace it with elements and the gameplay wouldn't really be affected). Also, there are enemies that drop on you, yet the camera barely shows what happens above most of the time, which makes these encounters frustrating.

The level design was fine, which is important in these types of games, apart from a little bit too much of backtracking in my opinion.

Definitely brings me back to Super Metroid with a lil color twist ;) The only trouble I had was sometimes dropping or jumping into enemies off screen.

I enjoyed playing this until the end. Easy to learn the mechanics, but mastering them and flying through the levels was a lot of fun. The final boss took me by surprise and the skills I'd learned during the game synergised nicely for a satisfying ending. Very well designed levels and immersive.

This is incredibly impressive in both scale and quality. There is so much content and it really does feel like a solid Metroidvania. The healing mechanic makes finding an energy field feel really rewarding. My only gripe was with certain falling mobs being completely out of sight before you trigger them. I think this would be fine if they weren't homing. I would also like to mention that this really get's how to make a Metroidvania level, as I found several times that I couldn't go somewhere, then found an unlock somewhere else and immediately knew that this would let me get to the place I'd seen before. Well done.

This is amazingly complete feeling for a jam game! I really enjoyed playing it all the way through.

It would have been cool to put an (optional) secret close to the start, since you can make it most of the way back there, but overall it felt like a good balance of backtracking and exploring new areas.