This reminds me quite a bit of A Seagull Company (which was basically the same thing but with PLATFORMING!1!). Which is not a bad thing, because this is awesome.
How odd. I was expecting a game more broken than Napoleon's men in Russia, and I got a quality, if slightly Meat Boy-esque platformer. A fun one, too. Methinks the detractors are having trouble with level 1. Cough.
Right on the dot, shMerker. It's very possible, maybe even probable, that a good player can clear the map of the creeper. Why is Odin City fleeing when it can be perfectly safe where it is? Probably just a story quirk, but it grinds.