Metaloid:Origin Windows, Mac, XONE, Switch game

Looks really nice - if it ever come to PC, please consider adding local co-op to it, would be awesome!

Is the game dead now?

I've played the demo and completed it with Zeta. I can't say which one is better since I mostly play as Zeta

Feedbacks:
1. I'm not fond of how platforms are arranged in first levels. Neither Erika nor Zeta are able to jump to top with normal jumps forcing Erika and Zeta to run jump to left and right to get there. For latter levels, it's okay to have difficult platforming like this but for first levels, keep platforms simple and easy to reach
2. I can get used to jump from ladders system but if it's possible I'd like a simpler system like this (while clinging on ladder):
a. When jump is pressed, Erika or Zeta will jump to opposite direction of ladder with normal speed (like regular jump). Holding left or right can move them as in regular jump
b. When jump+direction (opposite of ladder) is pressed, Erika and Zeta will perform long jump to opposite direction (like in the demo)
The idea of this is to make jumping off ladder is simpler and easier to control especially in places with spikes and dangers near ladder
3. 2nd boss is really tough, I had to use Zeta's shotgun to defeat him. If you want to make him easier, remove all freezers in his room and let him do the freezing himself
4. Allow player to move camera by holding up or down button to move it in respective direction. Very useful especially in stage 2 in which you need to look before leaping

Regardless of my feedback, the game is fun and I like the challenge

Wohoo! Feedback!

First of all, i had a lot of fun playing it. It took me 2-3 hours to finish those two levels (because i died soo many times... mostly on the spike part of lv 2). I really don't like the default controls i had to play with, so the jumping parts were really frustrating sometimes. If not the controls, it would have been better.
I will sill play it again, though, even with those bad controls. :P

Even ignoring the fact that i died so many times, the levels were pretty long. Much longer than i expected. You said 15 minutes of gameplay. LIAR! It takes longer than that on 1st try. :P

Graphics and music are great, and levels are very varied, both gameplay wise and graphics wise (although i hated the jumping focus of lv 2...). There's really nothing that i didn't like about the gfx and music in the game (BTW, great boss battle music; and i hope there will be more "puzzle bosses" like that jumping machine in the future :P ).

Ideas for content:
* multiplayer! at least on PC :P (dunno if you do it as a coop mode, or as a vs mode; in case of coop mode, probably a splt screen would be needed)
* Reactor Guardian mode as a coop? (you already have the content and code for that :P )
* cutscenes for the story, obviously :P (they don't have to be animated, just an image + a portrait of the talking person + said text)
* special item inventory that give you small bonuses (but of course, from the screenshots, it seems like you have it planned already)
* shops where you can buy items for Soulrium crystals (you probably have something planned, though)
* resistances and vulnerabilities? for example, certanin armors could give resistance vs bullets, but vulnerability vs energy weapons (although probably not necessary)

Could get improvement:
* dash button, or "activate sprint mode" button, so the player doesn't have to press direction twice in order to move faster for a short time (it's good when you just want to run, but for avoiding attacks, i think one button would be better)
* what's the button for weapon change? i have absolutely no clue what that symbol on the control screen is supposed to mean
* the selected element in the death screen menu could use something to make it more distinguishable (and the glowing lights being turned off for the element you selected, but turned on for those that aren't, seems a bit counter-intuitive)
* some way of charging attacks or firing few shots in a short burst? or just make low-jumps easier? (hitting some enemies that are on a ramp even slightly higher than you can be hard sometimes, because it's easy to overjump them and the delay between shots is pretty high; seems a bit less problematic for Zeta than for Erika)

Bugs:
* using Erika's roll near a wall, or rolling into a wall, will sometimes cause her to get stuck in that wall (not only you can't get out, but will fall down and die if you move)
* running into a wall (with sprint) might sometimes cause the same problem as with Erika's roll
* whether you die, or simply leave the game, after restarting the game, you begin with as many Soulrium crystals as you had on the previous run (maybe not a bug?)

Difficulty:
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(well, it's not THAT hard :P )
* i feel like the most difficult part of the game for me was fighting the controls (jump button between attack and special attack buttons? i would rather have space for jump); to someone who likes your control setup, it would probably feel differently, though
* because of controls not fitting me, it took me really lot of tries to pass the pre-1st-checkpoint part of mission 2 (1 hour of constantly dying to SPIKES T^T )
* i died at least 50 times, yet i had sooo many Soulrium crystals that i could be dying even more without worrying about being unable to finish the game
* i found playing as Erika easier than playing as Zeta (especially that there are some spots that apparently Zeta can't reach, or maybe only i don't know how to do it as him, while Erika can reach them with her air dash without any problem)
* 2nd boss is much harder than the 1st, because not you can only hurt him when you hit him in the back, but his attacks can freeze you immobile, and slippery floor makes it hard to avoid them (i defeated him only because of Erika's flaming roll special, otherwise it would take so many shots to kill him that i don't know if i would succeed) - maybe the battle with him could use something some ladder-like thing you can jump to?

Playerbase:
* try to spread the word on platformer game forums, if you didn't already

Anyway, thank you for releasing the demo, i had fun playing it. Hope to see more of your work.