First of all, I’m quite impressed with the art in this game, the characters look great and the audio design makes the mechanics feel good.

I do have a few points of feedback:

1. The regain control mechanic seems to either just waste some time if you’re away from enemies or is a death sentence if you’re near them. Furthermore binding it to ‘J’ (instead of space which was already used earlier in the game for the menu) makes for some akward hand placement.

2. At first I figured being spotted means game over, so I was very careful, but when I saw how slow the guards actually were I was able to pretty much run past them quite often.

What I think you have going for you with this concept is the distractability of the protagonist as well as the barking with specific objects, I think you should focus on making those mechanics much more important, for example guards are faster, but it takes them a while to actually notice you, so being distracted near them wouldnt be a death sentence, but you also wouldn’t be able to run past them.

adorable doggo!!

And interesting idea to mix up the element of stealth with the element of ... barking.

However it feels a bit unfair that once you enter the vision of a guard (and they are not chasing you), they will focus on you until you break line of sight :( which means that at some point you either have to restart of just run for it (which is quite often the solution, just run for it pass all the guards and dodge the balls and such, was an interesting approach :') )

Loved the sprite work! I wished some of the guards detection radii was not as wide or quick.