Desolation

• The navigation feels clumsy and disorienting. I wasn't able to tell where I had to go and felt it was uncomfortable to switch gravity. Sometimes you jump, change gravity but forgot where to go, or accidentally change it. Spins too much as a result. Maybe it would have been better to have a wider environment, it felt maybe too small for your character.
• Not a fan of the sprite animation of your character, btw. Feels a bit unnatural/clumsy to me. (because of the way it moves in a kind of "clunky" way. But it's a hard thing to do.
• Immersion on point, like always!
• Plot a bit too cryptic. I know(/assume) you want people to be free to make their own interpretation, but sometimes it's nice/fine to tell a story up until the end (instead of always letting them guess) I think it lacks something to have a more solid structure. But I mean, I still feel it's improved from your other games (I might have missed your previous one though), notably because you have dialogue choices (which is great to let the player choose what they want to know).

Perhaps the story would feel a bit more solid if we had more "clues", as subtle as they can be, as to who/why/what/how.

It might also jump a bit, adding more questions than we expect (the birthday person). Gives me a Silent Hill feel though, as the supporting cast is interesting. Maybe a bit too full for a game jam though? I think such a story focused game would benefit greatly from being longer (obviously out of the question in this case since it's a game jam - what I mean is that maybe it was a bit too ambitious - or it could simply be a bit more simple). Knowing more of the past and present, in a less vague manner.

I'm not saying it's bad btw, just that it's improvable. (I'm nitpicking) It's often a good thing to have some way to have a factual conclusion, or a solution to a problem in particular. Just to show some progression. I had almost as many questions in the beginning that in the end (exagerating a bit, I admit)

I hope I'm not too vague myself lol

Really cool game <3 (I realized I missed your last two game, I'll need to check them out)

That... bean? made me a little sad though :(

Two small nitpicks:

• Like Tero said, your character might be too tall for this game but even without the gravity mechanic, I think it look kinda weird for platforming for some reason.
• As for the level rotation, it was kinda nauseating. Not sure why or what could be done to limit that, I'm not usually affected by thing like that. Maybe because of the intermediate animation where the character is not straight up in the middle?

It was bizzare experience :D Good graphics and visuals. You seem to always use I assume bloom and grain shader, gives your game the look with your vector graphics. There was more to play than in your previous jam game, good improvement. "Oh wow, this girl can jump" when tried first time.

The one thing, which caught my eye, was the turning world around. As the gameworld and player turns around, it doesn't look that good with long characters like yours. Maybe shorter would have work better and faster turning with camera, for good example, take a look Gamemaker game Blackhole by FiolaSoft studios.

Oh! The birthday boy was your avatar :D

An audiovisual delight, that's for sure! Awesome job, especially with the soundscape. Gameplay wasn't exactly something never-before-seen (personally it makes me think of that one Super Paper Mario stage, but there are lots of examples), but it was very enjoyable nonetheless. 👌

That being said, 62 MB zipped?! Did you forget to compress your audio files inside GM?

Guacamole fuckamole dude. This is awesome! I recognised your art style right away because I remember your last game from previous gm48 :)

Every aspect of your game fits together really well. I hope you make a follow up on your story based games.

I've got mixed feelings about this! It was such a bizarre mix of non-sequitur story elements with extremely inconsistent tones - the dialogue of the face and of the "tree" seemed to be sincere, but between it all was a disheartened birthday toe obsessed with its birthday?!

The gameplay was excellent - I've always got time for gravity switching platformers, and this did it in a simple, immediately intuitive way. In all honesty, I think that could have carried the game itself - make the story something about the fact you can suddenly walk up walls!

Audio and visuals were both extremely well done as well, and well done on not only adding voice acting (albeit only for one character), but also having it fit the game well.

It's just hard to pin down my overall opinion, because the story was by far the game's most significant aspect, and that's the bit I'm mixed on. But great work on making something so polished - and definitely interesting - in the limited time!