The artwork of this game is insane! From the artwork to the huge amount of enemy attacks and player upgrades to even having an easy mode for people struggling, I can tell you put a lot of effort into this game... And it paid off! I enjoyed this game thoroughly, It was difficult but satisfying. I think that the double-shot ship with max power is the most OP one, so it felt a bit like a downgrade moving to increase ship size to shoot more bullets at a time. Having played the game when you first released it on itch.io a few days into development, I can see you hugely improved the feel and story of the game; I liked the start that showed off the storyline :). Overall this is a fantastic game with insanely good and unique graphics for a 1-bit style and I am extremely impressed!

The artwork and audio really stand out to me. I like how you did more with less in that regard. The background was drawn very nicely for a 1-bit requirement.

This game reminded me of eliminate down for sega genesis. good submission. Thank you for the work you have done

Yo matte and nicole! This was so fun! I loved this noisy half tone effect you're using. It gave something really interesting and unique to the 1bit aesthetic. The music is also so good and fits great with the game. And the final boss was so cool!

Keep up the great work, you all!

I'll coment here as well haha, pretty good game i liked it a lot. At first i saw the cinematics and thought mm this will have regular visuals probably but then the game started and damnn it looked fantastic. I would like to make it in the normal way but even the easy way was fun, i was kinda op but it felt great. I liked how the enemies were made as well, kinda like old and modern school. About the music, wonderful, perfefct. The composer made a good work showing how expresive the 8 bit style can be, i liked that every level had their own music and how well accompanies the action of the game. Great work everyone!

Commercial level old school horizontal shooter! The power-up system reminds me of an old Amiga classic "Project X"! Absolutely impressive! 

This is honestly a really fun and nice game! I love the idea of powering up and getting more powerful as you kill enemies. The fact at you used WORDS as representations on which bar is which and the highlighted letters as charges is honestly genius. The music and sound design is also really good! And I was shocked at the fact you managed to add bosses and a starting cutscene to this game! The usage of the 1bit style here is insane as well! I love the static noise looking backgrounds and objects, you very much achieved a very unique 1bit style here and its quite impressive.

I only have 2 complaints, in all honesty.
First is that the margin for error is incredibly tight. Losing EVERYTHING when you lose a life makes it hard to recover afterwards. Theres no way to regain health, and health doesnt regen after stages, so you basically have to no hit the entire game if you wanna reach the end. I got up to stage 2 before I decided to move on because i kept losing lives and then being unable to recover. decreasing power instead of resetting it wouldve been nice, and adding the ability to gain lives back would have been nice too. 

Second is very minor but I dont think the tutorial does a very good job of explaining everything. The way POWER works is completely unmentioned in the tutorial and I was super confused on what it meant when playing for the first time, though I did quickly figure it out after noticing my firerate speeding up. Maybe upgrades could have had an explanation too? But I think upgrades are simple and easily obvious enough to figure out what they do immediately upon collecting them.

Again, this is an insane amount of quality for a jam game, would totally play this in my free time if it recieved some rebalancing and was made a little less frustrating. 

the techniques to keep it to 2 colors are incredibly impressive and creative, the music and sound design is also really good, and it feels super fun to play. only thing i would change is having the lance recharge over time or something because it's super fun to use and gives the player a great option in a tight spot. allowing the lance to go backwards would also help with this utility-usage idea. i really like this one!