Thank you for playing, I'm really glad you found the tutorial helpful! It took up most of a day to get it to work right and I worried it wouldn't be that useful. :)

Balancing was definitely too difficult for me to get right. I wanted to make sure it was possible to see all five of the different levels I'd managed to make, so things are weighted heavily in the player's favor. As long as the player is willing to spend a lot of time doing upgrades in the shop, at least. :)

Thank you for playing, and for the feedback! Manual mode is meant to give the player control over each party member individually, but in hindsight it makes a lot more sense to direct everyone at once. Or at the very least to have the option to do that.

You're the first person to mention getting a failure message at the same time as retreating, interesting! I knew there was a possibility that the end of battle events could overlap, I should have made time to properly test the different scenarios. Thank you for bringing it to my attention! :)

Thank you for playing, I'm glad you enjoyed it! :) A wave counter would have been a good idea, now that you mention it! That stat is tracked internally, but I could have easily made it visible to the player as well.

Thank you for playing and the feedback!

Sorry I didn't think to make certain aspects of the shop and equipment more obvious! I definitely want to improve that aspect of the game, and adding an icon or some other indicator for weapons which can be upgraded is a good idea.

Thank you for playing!
Whether you feel it fits the theme is open to your interpretation, of course. :) My thoughts are that, story wise it's the Last Stand of a castle which needs to be protected, but that's explained more on the game page than within the game itself. Mechanically there's also a Last Stand when the castle takes too much damage (when you run out of lives/castle icons.)

Thank you so much for playing, I'm glad you found it fun!

Thank you for playing! I'm glad you liked the cutscenes and that you found the gameplay compelling. :)

I do see what you did there! 😸 Thank you for playing!

Thank you very much for playing! I'd also like to add more cute party members, and give the player an option to rename them for those who aren't a fan of nuts. :D

Thank you for playing! And having the self-restraint to stop playing when appropriate! :D

Thank you for playing! I'm happy that the game systems seem to be well set up, looking at them from the other side I mostly see the flaws. :D

Thanks so much! It's good to know I managed to put enough content in to hold your interest for a while. :)

Thank you for playing, I'm glad you found it engaging! And also cute. :)

Thank you for playing!

Thank you so much! I really, really should have done a short tutorial for the shop. It was probably more important than explaining the battles. I'm glad that you were able to figured it out!

Thank you so much! I'm looking forward to playing your game, too, it was already on my list to take a look at.

Thank you for playing and for the feedback! I wish I'd realized how little information the player really gets in the shop, I rushed an update to explain that upgrades exist in the last few hours before submissions closed, but totally neglected to mention dual wielding or anything else. (I wish I'd been able to add more hats, too.)

Thank you for playing! Right now it doesn't have a proper ending, but once the review period is over I hope to add a final battle of sorts. :)