I liked this quite a bit back when I played an earlier version. Keep in mind it's been a while and I might be misremembering a bit in my comparisons.

What happened to the various dungeons with meta progression? Or that tutorial stage with the fairy for that matter. That was very nice.

The menus are not the mess they used to be, but the in-game UI feels a little bit claustrophobic compared to what I remember. The art and design style is still very much all over the place.

Didn't this use to have rhythm mechanics? I can't seem to find them.

I played a few runs and all my losses were from picking death. One time I got stuck in a room where I had no option but to choose it.

Nice core mechanic, but lacks a bit of meat on the bone. Felt like maybe it could've been a good rhythm game, "Crypt of the NecroDancer" style? Dunno. I won't say it was easy - but I stayed fairly consistent after I understood the mechanics.

Also monsters seem to serve close to no purpose, it seems much better health-wise to just wait til you see a weak enemy or a scroll. Also time refill vials spawn pretty often, so I could top up my time even after ignoring it for a while.

Got a triple grim reaper spawn once, that's where the reroll came in handy, but if I rolled a second triple grim reaper - it would've been unfair. I dunno if you have it purely random or not - but that one thing to consider.

A cute little game, I wish there was a bit more than just selecting a correct tile.

Watched this on stream as you know, giving it a spin today. Gotten to level 10 for now, got some initial thoughts. The core gameplay system here works, it is fun, but I think it needs a little more flair. Once you reach a level save point, introduce some sort of choice for an ability unlock, make the player able to create "builds". 

Abilities such as: double healing, more damage, survive one death, traps heal you, break rockdoors etc. These are abilities that depend on what is in the game now, I think you can add a lot more. 

Gambling/party feel I think would be good. Special blocks with slots or fantasy roulettes giving gold, exp, damage or something else. 

Every tenth level, introduce a boss sequence, the rune thing is cool. Some kind of clicking minigame to solve a boss, possibly targeting body parts in a correct order or something like that, using the core mechanic. 

Introduce a shop here and there too where gold can be used, also use max gold as score. 

Implied randomized story encounters would be cool too. Nothing too advanced, a rare princess encounter, dragon enemy, mimic chest, mysterious crystal etc. 

Chests with loot. Loot could just be collectible unlocks. 

Edit: Collecting collectable "loot" also provides further investment to play the game more. 

-Why do you start the game windowed? I know this is minor, but starting fullscreen feels more professional to the average gamer.

-Good tutorial pages, brief but to the point.

-Played for 10 levels. Music's drum beat feels too loud, it bothers my ears. Gameplay is OK? It feels a little less interesting than last time.

-Level 30. Doesn't feel much different to level 1, really. I suppose Death is more common.

-Got to 60 before dying. idk, I felt bored. If you threw in a twist like using the fourth direction too or adding new icons part way through it may be more engaging. Being able to start again from 60 is a double edged sword. On one side it's not that punishing to die, but on the other it makes the challenge feel arbitrary if you can do it piece meal.

-Sprit burn feels too one note. I just save it for when stuck between death and a hard place, and nothing else. If you could cast different flavors, like a guaranteed spawn of weed or oil on burn reroll, it would be more interesting.

-Finished the game, it got a little more engaging towards the end, but not by much. I think in part it was me changing strategy, because instead of mostly going for scrolls, I engaged with the systems to fight enemies while managing health. 

i spent like 10 minutes playing up to level 20 with no noticeable increase in difficulty until i stopped. for a long time i had assumed you were supposed to get to floor 100, so i was taking a lot of paths and getting nowhere. early on i had assumed experience was needed because later enemies would appear more often and would get more hits on you if you weren't leveled up

i think paths make death less likely to spawn? i remember something like that from an older version, but i would have assumed they did nothing if i hadn't seen something like that in an earlier version

i assume the idea is that the player has to manage their health with herbs so they can attack enemies to get experience, while keeping death away with paths, while keeping their lantern from going low, while keeping a spirit so they can reroll a difficult situation

the problem, in my limited experience, is that i managed to do that just by tediously grinding on scrolls and presumably could have continued to if i so wished. i also think that it would be a very flat difficulty curve where you manage your variables in the same way and avoiding touching death ad infinitum

delete didn't seem to work as a cancel button for me, i had to use escape