Great! I love the art style, the gameplay, and the difficulty!
Reviews for "my favourite place"
Very nice game! I like the art style.
Pretty cool game! Absolutely love the general sense of polish the game has due to the slick presentation, like when it transitions from the level title into the actual gameplay. Gameplay is simple but intuitive and the levels introduced some cool obstacles and boss fights. It does have a bit of wonkiness to it like with the hitboxes for spikes and I don't think the CRT bendy-screen shader is needed as it just hurts my eyes and the game is already decent looking without it, but overall it felt quite smooth.
That being said, I did feel like the game lost me rather quickly, as soon as around level 3. While the game was cool, it was rather basic and never really seemed to do anything really unique or fancy. In fact, the levels always seemed so cramped to the point where there wasn't enough room for you to make any interesting rooms, and it didn't take too long for it to feel repetitive, like it had already shown all its cards and was just repeating with slight variations. Couple that with the overly punishing deaths sending you all the way back to the start and it got rougher to keep playing.
I like the curved TV aesthetic and the pixel art is very nice. The speedrun element of the game is also very fun. However, playing the game normally is monotonous, with it being far too punishing to restart the entire level when it takes just one hit to kill you. I would consider either checkpoints or increasing the character's hit points. Overall, a fun game, just much harder than it should be.
Pretty good! It's a shame I didn't see your game in the jam, it was cool!