Definitely improved since the last time! The new room layouts and traps makes the fights more dynamic, especially the exploding barrels can add some strategy to the rooms. Progression of unlocking spells felt like it had a decent pacing. And in general, the game definitely feels more fun than last time I remember.

- For the traps, might be interesting if they could push the dynamics of the room more, with traps turning on/off, laser turrets speeding up or changing direction, or something like that - might be worth experimenting with.
- In one shop I came across two different upgrades with their description "faster shot" and "makes you shoot faster". I assume the former is about projectile speed? Might be good to make it clearer.
- Boss HP bars always face the boss and are pretty small. Would make it easier to see if it'd always face the camera and perhaps if it were a bit bigger.
- Right now the biggest thing that's missing in my opinion is a good feedback for your attacks. Enemies don't really react to getting hit other than a bit of blood splatter for some, and when they die their ragdoll just turn on and they flop with their already existing momentum. Same goes with the hand animations - they're kinda slow and small at the moment and don't really have any "punch".

I played this a while back and the game feels a lot smoother and more fun than it did months ago. Some comments:

• Maybe it's just because of how I play but boss balancing seemed a bit inconsistent, my first try I got to the first boss room and got oneshot by the mancubus guy with a rocket launcher. I got the same guy my next run through and was able to just barely scrape by with 3 health. Next run I got some wierd lava man with claw hands that jumped around and was completely non threatening. I also got the spider guy that jumps around at the end of the second cathedral who was similarly easy. Not sure if the mancubus guy is supposed to be harder than the others or if I'm dumb and missing something with that guy.
• being able to kill enemies before they spawn feels cheap
• I remember complaining about the dash last time I played but it seems alright now
• The sword felt a bit OP because I could just swing into a big clump of enemies and get a bunch of health and armor, but I was only playing on normal mode so maybe it's fine as is
• When the Cacodemon looking guys and the metal spider guys use the attack that splashes a bunch of projectiles around them all the projectiles making an impact sound at once is very loud
• Random upgrade system is good, but I'm not sure what some of the upgrades do. For example I assume that luck has to do with item drops and maybe crit rates? but I'm not sure if it affects anything else.

Not using the Itch.io player.

The sword does not have long reach, at least against wooden boxes.

Is there a bug in the map at the top right? The arrow is not on top of the rectangles.

I dislike having to go around and smashing all the crates after a level is completed. Might it make sense to have all crates auto-destroy once finishing a level? And maybe also have all items auto-move towards the player, or would that prevent players from saving items if they are low on health and want to backtrack? Then again, the crates can be used for experimentation and training (like timing a sword swing). I just imagine that it can be bothersome in the long run.

I did not have an easy time seeing from afar the difference between regular "zombies" and armed zombies, apart from shots being fired, but it might not be important.

In the first boss room, I accidentally went to the next level instead of checking out the two side rooms.

For weapon three/shotgun weapon, the red crystals look a bit shaky when looking up and down.

After I bought a "crown of thorns", the helper text from the shop is still around in the subsequent levels.

I like the boss fights so far, I have completed two at this point. Nice introduction to concepts, weapons, enemies and counters.

I ended up dying at catacombs 1, I did not realize that the spike traps were traps, and they ended up killing me.

Fun enough game, very hectic, my usual tactic was to just run around in a circle around the room and shoot at prioritized targets.

The application closes instantly when I try to run it within the Itch.io player.

I have sandboxing enabled in the Itch.io player. Are you using features that would be stopped by the sandbox?

I like the setting and in theory the concept should work well.

But the combat isn't great, shooting a hail of projectiles until the enemies ragdolize just doesn't feel satisfying.
imo enemies need painstates and maybe gibbing, something to give combat better feedback.

The hell arenas are more fun to traverse than the cathedral arenas, but the enemy AI has a lot of trouble navigating them, more than once I had to hunt down stuck enemies to progress.

When entering the first hell arena I spawned under the map and kept falling until the game teleported me back, I also saw some enemies falling with me. (screenshot attached)

Also are the enemies that spawn when you get a new weapon supposed to be bosses?
The AoE mage guy in the hell arena kinda felt like one but the others really didn't.
If that's the case, I'd put the healthbar on-screen

I had fun beating it, but the enemies need work.
Only played desktop mode btw.

couldn't get it to run properly. most likely on my end, since i own an antique toaster