Music and Visuals are alright. Except for the Player Square, that needs work. Controls are horrible. Played with Controller, First I need to use Left Shoulder to advance, but then it swaps between Attack/Counter options and I need to use facebutton down to select? With other Face buttons swapping aswell? Also keeps talking about WASD even tho I'm on controller. 

Tutorial requires D-Pad and/or talks about D-Pad for the Outer Stuff, and WASD for the inner Stuff if I recall correctly. Thought I had it figured out and it was DPad for outer and FaceButtons for inner, but apparently it was FaceButtons for outer and RMB+FaceButtons for inner? I got very confused on what I was supposed to do, and it took a while to get comfortable with the Controls itself. Timings are extremely short. On Controller, swapping between DPad Inputs for the Directions as quickly as WASD is not really possible, since it uses the same Finger.  Also tells me to only deflect/whatever the glowing/color Stuff, but apparently the white Stuff also damages me? 

I think the concept and the music are nice. I like the idea of having low and high risk attacks for the player with different patterns, although the former needs to deal some pity damage if you fail to really be low risk. There's also an extrinsic push to pick the high risk option simply because it's more fun.

I would like to see more feedback for the player. Visually the cat uses blades, stars, bombs, gears, a boot, etc. The tutorial helps of course but perhaps what you really need is a more consistent visual theme. The monochromatic aesthetic makes it ideal for this, specific colors and shapes can easily indicate the current threat and what needs to be done. 

I have no real idea what I was doing. I think you need better visual indicators of whether or not a parry worked or is even happening in the first place. You call it a swing, I saw no swinging. The music was good though. Hopefully in the future your gameplay feels better and your tutorial is more incremental

I think there are more issues with my brainpower than there are with the game, but I tried it 4 times and never really got the hang of it. This all concerns the Counter set of moves, since the attack one is simple enough.

I understand Counters conceptually, but I just couldn't execute it in practice. Perhaps the controls could also be expanded, since I never did more than 2% counter damage despite trying it out every chance given - and I think this is an issue of me misunderstanding controls. I read through them every restart, but it simply wouldn't work as I'd expect it ingame. I never saw a star/knife thing be reflected, despite holding space, pressing space, and various other combinations

The "quickly press the directional keys where the two ticking things" are was fine, but reflecting knives/starts would never work, no clue why. Again, this is probably mostly due to me not having experience with games like these and not an error with the game or whatever, but that also might be a sign that your control scheme is not idiotproof, since I got filtered hard by it.

Perhaps you could benefit from a more handholding approach, where you have the tutorial text, then a prompt similar to "try and land this attack/try and do this counter" before proceeding.

Otherwise, the sound and visuals are fine. The main character looks very boring compared to the Cool Cat enemy, though, but that might be your intention.

Again, I'm sure the game works fine, but I got filtered.

For reference I was using a keyboard and not a controller