Really great submission. Love the art and lighting.

Nice game ! I love it, graphics are nice, gameplay is absolutely amazing, not too easy, awesome :D

Like a 2d Tomb Raider with a lot of snow! This was tons of fun, and just the right kind of difficult to really make me feel stupid every time I died, thus making me try again. Well done.

Really fun little game! I had some trouble getting used to the controls, but bouncing with the flame weapon felt very good. Great work!

Love the art style, and game play is great. But a bit hard.

Game for me is
Hard as hell
But you made it
pretty well =)

I am not great at this sort of game, but I like the dark areas. Fun :)

Great mood on the game.

Although difficult, this is a really polished entry. The graphical style is fantastic, and everything feels solid. Congrats!

Good mood, I like those pixels!

That was so retro and so awesome! Those monsters in the dark, scary. It was really hard, too, which is why I couldn't complete it...got the flame gun and reached the diamond thing but kept dying after that.

Really smooth gameplay. :)

Cool game! Nice pixel art graphics and solid gameplay. I love these sorts of screen-by-screen exploration platformers, so I approve of this!

Like the artwork and the dark/spotlights. Well executed, congrats.

OP delivers: here is a Let's Play of your game:
http://youtu.be/34Q4LE6ooAE
I don't think I praised it enough, it was just too immersive. It is a great game with beautifully executed pixel graphics and 8Bit sound.

Ah, another Stencyl game! I will never forget the days I spent on it.

The game itself is beautiful and great. I love the sandbox-esque nonlinear map.

Thank you everyone for the amazing feedback!

@Rialgar: Thanks for the vid! Sorry you ran into the recoil bug where you can get stuck. I'll have to try and do something about that. But I really do appreciate the video!

Nice game! Gets a little difficult once you get into the dark, but a suppose a few more play throughs and I'd get used to it. Congratulations on a great submission!

very good piece of work, one of my favourites for the moment!
i really like the style, the big pixel art and the choice of colors.
great playability and level design

Like you game. Lightning technics are great for this genre. Very satisfying experience.

The graphics are really beautiful but the game is really too difficult... The fairies attacked me, WTF ! The weapon doesn't do anything ! I think that it's a little bit too punitive...
If you're going to work again on this game, add a little chiptune with some reverb ;D
BIG UP for theme and graphics.

Great game. The power ups are cool and the exploring is fun.

Well. Overall, this was a pretty good game. I liked the weapons, the graphics, the mood, the take on the theme as well as the audio. I've seen more original games, but I haven't made more original games myself, so that doesn't really say much. This was pretty fun. I would've played this 'til the end, but after a while, the game kinda crashed.
I uploaded a password protected image here: http://imgh.us/Beta_Testing_2.png (STZCrash). I jumped on the first purplish enemy I saw, and after that, the game kept going but I couldn't move nor shoot or anything like that. I don't know if you knew about this issue, or if you want to fix it after the contest, but oh well.

This was a fun game; well done, and good luck! :D

Love the retro aesthetic!

Cool mood. The audio was a bit piercing.

It seems weird that the game gives me a weapon that doesn't seem to hurt any of the enemies that I encounter. So it is a game where I am unarmed and nearly blind trying to find platforms in the dark while running away from stuff.

I can see where people might get confused about the default weapon not working; it has the same hit animation for hitting an enemy as hitting a tile. Something to consider for future iterations.

Initially, it can only hurt the flying glowflies, and they require five hits. The other white thing can only be pushed by it.

It's not easy to move in the darkness. But I like game's style.

I simply love it, awesome game.

I think I got stuck twice, was that intentional?

(I made a vine (two to be precise). https://vine.co/u/972257384326180864)

I'm on Windows 7, used Firefox, latest version, AIR also latest

Nice little game! A bit too difficult for me on the dark room with the bats. Seemed I couldn't shoot them at all.
Jumping via "Z" and shooting with "X" is difficult on a german keyboard because "Z" and "Y" are swapped on german keyboards compared to US keyboards.
Otherwise quite fun!

Looks really good! :)

When I was running through the dark areas exploring, I felt curious. If you continue to develop this, after the save crystal, going left and getting eaten by the green monster on the bottom a few times, I felt annoyed. I jumped on the platforms, but the bats took more hits than I could land before they knocked into the lower floor with the green monster.

Got stuck in a pit with no ammo to do the fire jump out, the bats wouldn't kill me and the green thing in the ground wasn't coming, had to restart :( Restarted from start, got stuck on a purple fire breathing monster and couldn't move. Was enjoying it until these problems occurred. Would like to play if this was fixed (even if not to fix the getting trapped/getting stuck, but just adding a suicide/respawn at last save button)