Thanks. The only text that really needs it is the dialogue text (logbooks, characters talking). The GUI text (menus, status bar) is fine enough as it is because once we memorize it, we can easily figure out what's written.

By the way, I suggest making all pick-up items blink in a subtle way, to make them easier to distinguish from the scenery.

And when playing in the DSi, with the SuperGameBoy borders option enabled, the game displayed a checkerboard pattern in the borders of the screen. I guess the SuperGameBoy reads the border art data from the game's ROM, because some other games display an unique border with that option active, so it would be nice if you can add SuperGB border art to this game.

I played it in a regular DSi, with aspect-correct scaling. Without scaling, I couldn't read anything.

But as I said, it may be because I need better glasses. I'm 45 years old.

Played the demo, excellent stuff. Some remarks:

The text is too tiny on real hardware, for people who needs (better) glasses. An optional bigger font for the dialogue text would be nice.

When jumping up shafts, the screen transitions too soon when we need to jump alternating between the left and right on those tiny platforms in the walls of the shaft. We try to jump onto a tiny platform on the left, and before reaching it the screen transitions and in the new screen the first platform is on the right, which is disorienting.

As for the rest of the game, it's really well made and I hope it gets fully funded. I find that the lack of vertical aiming is an interesting differentiation between this game and the Metroid series, because it opens new challenge possibilities in the level design. Maybe the diagonal or vertical aiming could be exclusive to certain weapons.