Few days ago I watched NickonAquaMagna's let's play of the Freedom Planet demo and then I played it by myself...
THIS. IS. AWESOME.
Your game is just adorable and so enjoyable. Music, graphics, animations - just great. It have some sort of old-PSX feel of games. I registered on this forums just to thank you for your effort and give you some feedback. I have two suggestions.
1) During the playthought I noticed one thing that can be spot also on mentioned video that I saw.
Around 1:25 - you can see Lilac jumping on the floating platform. There is a small problem. If you jump from lower platform to higher, you will land on the higher. But sometimes you feel that you jumped to low to reach the platform above but game is interpreting it as a correct land and it "teleports" you at the top of it.
This may be disorienting. During my playthought I was 100% sure that I will not land on it but game always putted me up. This was so unexpected that I accidentally fall down below. This can be used to, but I believe that it can be adjusted somehow. OR (this is proposition) you can make a new animation of character as she grabs a platform with her hands and then just she climbs up quickly, if your jump wasn't enoght to reach the higher place.
2) Did you considered adding your game to the Steam Greenlight?
http://steamcommunity.com/greenlight/
This is interesting initiative. The purpose it to "players choose which games they want to see on Steam". You are adding videos, gameplay and screenshots with a game's description. Then you just count on player's up-votes with may help game to get on Steam shop. This may be interesting idea as well as a way of promotion.
Anyway. Good luck with the game. It definitely will rock!
PS Sorry for my English and mistakes that may occur.
PPS About the self-demonstrating shield "containers". Maybe it's a good idea, to expand the "demonstration shield" to the large "safe-zone" sphere/aura. Larger enough to protect the whole character when she is standing it in. It disappears if character will take a shield with her.
