Irredeamable

I played quite a bit of the game and I was enjoying it. The game for sure needs more polish, especially for the controls: the movement is a bit chaotic, with the character getting stuck in collisions often, among other issues, and, up until my current progress, combat was very easy, as I could just spam the claws to win every battle (only the witch boss gave me trouble, but I've still beaten it on my first try).

Despite this, I was still having fun: despite the lack of polish, the gameplay has some interesting depth to it, the story is pretty nice and with a lot of lore, the optional collectibles are fun to collect and, overall, the game has a lot more content than I was expecting. Also, while a lot of graphical assets are a bit too crude, the character design is very cool.

If you spent some more time polishing it, it would be a very good game, for sure deserving to be a paid product.

Sadly, I can't play it anymore because it appears I have hardlocked my save file. After getting the ability to wall jump, I went directly to Mount Evermore, the gray area, which it didn't look as intended: it looked like I needed a double jump to get to the ladder leading to it, but I was able to glide to it from the right.

I did get some sort of warning sign as, after unlocking the first two warp points, I couldn't use them from the hub area to get back, but I insisted going forward until beating the lady of the lake and getting the ability to recharge the double jump. The power-up description actually mentions that I don't have the double jump, which confuses me, as I don't know if it means that the double jump is intended to come after or if you knew this area could be reached without the double jump.

And this is where I'm hardlocked: I can't enter the warp point that looks like the only way to leave the place I'm currently at and, because I used the save point in the room before it, I can't continue the game.

I actually tried modifying the save file: by testing, I could change things like the number of pages collected, but trying to change the variable "current_room" is fruitless (the variable was set to "ME_The_darkness" and I've tried to change it with names I could get from other variables, but the game kept spawning me in the same room I was stuck).

I don't really want to restart the game from the beginning, so, unless I'm able to hack successfully the save file, I guess I'm done with the game. But I would be willing to give it another spin if it was updated ;)

However, if you're done with this game and are working on something new, I'm sure your next game will be very good: it's super evident that you worked a lot on this game, giving you lot of useful gamedev experience. I'm excited to se what you'll do in the future!