Dokibird Heist Inc.

Ok so post-update, I can say the controls are MUCH better. It plays so much smoother and much more fun. That said there are new bugs some that are quite troublesome. Luckily I have done professional playtesting, so here is my report for you.

• This area has an issue in that the shaft leading up to the platform before this one? The right wall can't be gripped. In order to make it up you have to slam your face into the wall, and then move back to your original wall.

• Additionally, the player no longer jumps high enough for the original "standing jump, then dash" maneuver that is supposed to be here. You now have to position carefully and do a diagonal dash while landing with precision. Very difficult to manage.
• When grabbing a wall from the floor, then letting go, you will T-pose around on the ground. Kind of funny I admit.
• The ending sequence no longer brings the camera to the interior of the hideout. Instead doki stands with arms outstretched in victory, as you can see here.

• And lastly, when jumping through one of the one-way platforms while holding the grab button, you will launch way high. There is no practical use for it though, so it does not interrupt gameplay. But a bug none the less.

All in all much better an experience. But it still has some issues like that first picture in particular. It is easily the hardest part in the game right now in my opinion. Even if the hideout is not shown, at least the ending CG is shown.

This game looks so good! The transitions and art is really neat!
The sound in chapter 0 is a little weird I think like there is some static that sounds more like an audio issue than intended design. 

With keyboard this is incredibly hard, and I accidentally skipped some crucial dialogue when I had to get past the first guard and couldn't figure out how to get hide or whatever I was meant to do

But I can tell that a lot of effort was put into this especially on the presentation!

Nice game! Having played games like Super Meatboy I'm no stranger to frustrating levels (that are mostly my fault when I fail). However I think the movement mechanics need to be tightened up and made more consistent. I do like the animations and the story though. I think this game would benefit from more polish time, but I hope the team works on more projects together.

I played with keyboard. The controls are really really rough, and the level design is brutally unforgiving. It took me 6 hours to complete the whole thing due to the high difficulty. I only managed it thanks to finding what I am pretty sure is an exploit too. Luckily, I have played enough Celeste to understand the basics.

I love the story you have going here, and the art is really nice to look at. Both the CG and the sprites. Though having to scroll to the comments to know how to play the next level is a bit rough. ( I suggest adding it to the description of the game controls. )

- the game is bugged, I can't get to chapter 1. When I press "continue" at the end of chapter 0 it sends me back to the main menu :(

- you can select the chapter by pressing right/left on the 'play' screen

- the velocity on movement feels a bit janky/inconsistent. it seems like jumping straight up gives more distance than jumping diagonally. the "gravity" of jumping also feels a bit heavy, it might be from other games but I feel like I should be getting more airtime.

- gave up in the middle of chapter 1, the movement was difficult to work with and spike hitboxes are very unforgiving. It felt like my wall bounce sometimes had 2x the amount of horizontal distance, but i wasn't able to recreate it consistently. Most noticeable on screen 3(?) where you need to wall bounce in the middle of the screen.

- on screen 4(?), the momentum preservation on the slime bounce makes it difficult to use. it seems like you need to use the slime to trampoline vertically, but there's no way to get to it without dashing - and dashing into it sends you into the wall of spikes to the right.

- polish on the UI is very nice! the sprites, art, menu all look and feel great. I love the way text pops up on the screen :) voice acting was a surprising touch.