First round it wasn't clear to me why the shield moved by itself. But then i got it. After that it was nice. I like the rythm game field and the art and it really was enjoyable!

I am sure I have played many games like this before BUT to be fair, its never playing as a shield and its never descending down.

I will say though, I hated those god-awful animations but at least the texturing is pretty good and the font matches the game asthetic, well so long as you ignore those arrow symbols taken from the typeface Century Gothic which is used in the help menu...

I like the idea and it has a story supporting it so it feels immersive. Art and music are also great, it would be good if you've had made drawings for buttons as well, but I'm assuming you ran out of time.

Problems: I took me a minute to figure out that I can only move the shield away from an incoming arrow (this is me with only info from the game itself) - you should show button prompt to dodge an arrow when you can, you can just spam every arrow key and be invincible - you should maybe make it that there are less arrows incoming but you gotta time it right so if you move away to early the shield moves back in front of the arrow.