Overall, a neat little experiment, but nowhere near a finished game. There are some clear areas planned for future improvement, so if this game ever receives more development I'll revise my review. As-is, I sadly can't recommend it.

The good:

• Interesting level design. It's clear what's foreground and background, what platforms are jumpable, and even the "hidden" walls have a distinct look that doesn't immediately pop out. Great work here.
  
• It's clear what's an enemy and what's a setpiece, since the enemies have a brighter color palette and also move.
  
• The main character is distinct from everything else, so I never lost them on-screen.
  
• Neat concept, I'd love to explore the ruin of an ancient science facility and see what happened to the recent (?) investigation team. Why am I here? What's going on? would genuinely like to see more of this.

The bad:

• Tutorial text suggests diagonal aiming should be possible, but I wasn't able to get it to work. Either be more clear or actually allow diagonal shooting. Since the character model doesn't change to reflect aim direction until you shoot, I would recommend metroid-style arm movements, even when not shooting.
  
• Extremely poor tutorialization. Did you know you have a ledge grab? An alert will take up most of the right of the screen when your gun is overheated, no matter how many times it happens, despite the overheat bar also being prominent and taking up half the top of the screen. This alert pops up for everything, when it should only pop up the first time then have a small alert for new logs/keys/etc. The action isn't frenetic enough that it ever becomes dangerous, but it is extremely annoying. Overall, the tutorials either hand-hold you way too much or you're not told anything at all.
  
• Environmental hazard spikes and bee stings are nearly indistinguishable from background details, which leads to taking damage seemingly for no reason
  
• Keybindings and menu are nearly incomprehensible. I accidentally unbound my mod and couldn't figure out how to re-bind it until the boss fight. Where the mouse works and where it doesn't isn't clear. How you navigate the menu via the arrow keys isn't clear, either.
  
• Sometimes doors just won't open until you leave and come back. There is no indication why this happens (color or sprite-wise, they're identical to other doors of the type) so I legit can't tell if this is intended or not.
  
• Some inputs carry over from the menu to the playable game, leading to what i thought was a freeze but was actually the game loading another screen while i was in the menu, leading to neither accepting inputs. Exiting the menu fixed this, but it kept happening.

With the game being for free I can't really complain about how the game is full of amateur unity mistakes and unity stutter. Beggars can't be choosers afterall. However, the map does not appear to be functioning and indeed the menu controls just seem really weird and unintuitive so I don't see how I can recommend this. The game also lacks self-confidence and instructs you by text that "paths may have opened up" in response to you doing something that obviously opens up paths. Things like this should be communicated by things occurring in the game, not by text.

⠀

It's an...okay student project. The pixel graphics are nice and I didn't experience any bugs while playing. Even for a completely unfinished game -it is a student project after all- it feels barebone and pretty uninspired. The core modules/augments are far from interesting. One is a map while the other lets you see health. Neither of which really engage the audience in a way. Typically, in a metroidvania, you would get fun abilities that help you move faster or fight in a unique way, but there's none of that here. I think, at the moment, the game is a blank canvas; it's sort of boring, but you can really make something great out of it with some unique ideas and elbow grease.

I’m not sure what people want out of an indie metroidvania, but I thought this was great! It’s more of a demo than a full game, but either my expectations were unusually low because of the other reviews, or maybe I wasn’t expecting much because I had to set up the controller (Devs need to realize that certain game genres must have controller support even if it’s just partial in-game!), but besides being too short, everything about it is great!

-the music is probably the best thing going on here, it’s perfect all around!

-the graphics are better than most when compared to other metroidvania games in the same league (environmental station alpha, outbuddies DX, etc.)
I especially like that the dev took time to add detail to the rooms, and it’s not just square rooms with gray wall after gray wall (steam really needs some type of quality control, but who am I kidding? We live in a time where greed is seen as a good thing, forget that I even mentioned such a ridiculous idea!)

-gameplay is good, maybe it could use some more enemies, but what’s there works, and it’s not the usual stand still zombie that does nothing except exist to be your target… again, I don’t understand, did the other reviewers want super Metroid for free? (Actually, this has nothing to do with being free, surprisingly a lot of great games are free)

Stop reading my incoherent ramblings, go play this fun game!

I couldn't get into it for whatever reason.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

IT DOES NOT HAVE ZERO SUIT SAMUS GETTING CAPTURED IN BONDAGE CAW CAW

SO WHAT'S THE POINT THEN CAW CAW??

Good

Honestly it's basically a demo, and not a very impressive one.