I must say that i really liked the game, my problem with it is that it's too slow and too buggy. When i was fighting the duck turtle the game bugged and i didn't want to continues cause it has so many random encounters that take too much time and has some other bugs that pissed me a little bit. But al that said, i'm impressed you managed to do it in one week, this game is really good, with some polishing it could be one of the best games i played so far. Congratulations :D

pretty solid game. Its funny that you can select your character to deal damage to yourself :D i just killed myself fighting some mules :D Check out our game https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/477035

Very interesting game that really followed the theme. I like the combat system. The music reminds me a bit of runescape. The description of the abilities while fighting are lying :). I'm not sure if this is normal but the magic seems infinite I can cast spells even after the mp are at zero but I'm glad it is this way since spells use a lot of mp. I appreciate being able to use a ps4 controller as pressing the spacebar for the dialogue was a bit tedious after a while. I like the heal all effect but the particle effects didnt seem to work in a red dragon fight or the final dragon fight, at least not as widely spread as before. The continuous looping of the fire and ice animation in the last fight was a bit stressful but still nice. You were able to put quite a nice story and lenghty gameplay within one week. Great job!

I'm really impressed with what you were able to get done in just a week! great work music was great the gameplay was great there were a few things that previous comments have already mentioned like cancelling current actions but other than that great work!

Rated - Really cool turned based game!  I fell a lot of effort was put into this in just one week, awesome job!  Take everyone's suggestions and polish/improve the game.  Hope you learned a lot!  Please check out my entry if you have time~ good day!

Pretty good game :) I like the ideas behind the story and the game's world.
In terms of improvement I can see 5 things:
- A flee option as it's a bit annoying having to fight every monster which takes a lot of time and is repetitive.
-An option to cancel the current action selected would also be great as I happened to misclick a lot.
-Reduce the amount of hits to kill enemies because it takes way too long on top of almost always spamming the same action
-Make selections smoother
-Improve UI to make it more understandable
I'm not sure that I managed to finish the game, but I arrived at the forest and didn't continue because of the long combat encounters.
I'm sure you ran out of time for this game, but apart from the tuning that needs to be done to improve overall quality I think that the combat system works nicely for a start.
I'm actually surprised by how fun this game turned out to be for the first few battles. It's currently the most fun I've had from all the submissions I've tried ^^

One of the best games of the jam, hands down, the only thing it lacks is a "Flee" button (and maybe the encounter ratio is a bit too high), but I have to say that I loved it! The graphics, the music and the particles, the story and how the theme is implemented, also the Combat system is polished and very nice and more you go on the more other options and boosts are useful, I liked a lot the final boss, and the thing that the commands lie. The story was also fun, I laughed so hard at the Hatvengers, very very nice game!

Is the game supposed too stop at the blocked road? I'm just playing it and I can't figure a way to get through

This is my experience:

1. Dialogue: Enter, enter, enter, enter, enter, enter...
2. Oh, it's done. Let's go right. Talk to some people. Next screen...
3. Random Encounter: Evil mules need like 6 attacks to kill - Enter, enter, enter, enter, enter, enter...
4. Take a step.
5. Random Encounter: Evil mules need like 6 attacks to kill. There are 2 of them - Enter, enter, enter, enter, enter, enter...
6. Take a few steps.
7. Random Encounter: Evil mules need like 6 attacks to kill. There are 2 of them - Enter, enter, enter, enter, enter, enter...
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 four times, I think. A few with the new character in the party, before he officially joins, but never mind.
9. He joins. Repeat steps 6 and 7 once.
10. Transition to next screen.
11. Take a few steps.
12. Repeat steps 6 to 7, possibly with different enemies. By now I've lost all intellectual capacity. But my Enter finger is stronger than ever.
13. Quit.

What I'm trying to say, in a cheeky kind of way, is that your game has:
1. Too many random encounters and they are too frequent.
2. Evil mules take too many hits for being the very first enemy you encounter.
3. Considering the amount of HP your character have and the damage output of the enemies, there's no point in using anything other than Attack. The Suikoden series created an Auto function. You needed one as well, given the conditions just explained.

Based on these understandings, I wasn't going to subject myself to this anymore.

Music is pretty adequate for the context. Very few SFX.

Graphics are consistent, though very old school. If you're into that, I think they work OK.

I was also shocked when I saw the source project. But since I love programming I do find it fun to see how people choose to program their projects

Looks like you shared your actual project folder.  That may have been on purpose - which is really cool!  But if you'd rather hide that item you can do so in your dashboard.  I was going to ask if you could upload a macOS build but since you shared the project folder I can just build it and play it.  I'll rate it in a bit, thanks!

EDIT - Very cool! Love the music and graphic style.  Feels just like an old Intellivision game.  The movement is good.  The fight scenes and fighting mechanics are very polished.  Controls seem to be working well.  It was cool to check out the project also.  Played and rated.  Awesome entry!