It's been really cool to watch this project from start to finish, and to see all the changes you've made based on feedback over the various iterations. I think this is easily the most playable version yet. I think aside from me still struggling to wrap my head around the way the ball will move (this is definitely a me problem, you've done a lot to make this way more understandable), my major feedback here is that my hands are exhausted from playing this game. Controller support or a more ergonomic keyboard layout would be appreciated (and after writing that sentence I felt like an idiot and went back to see if the arrow keys work and they do, so great! but the tutorial text still says use WASD to move so ya). I got to the room with the bull and the turkey this time, so I'm making progress.

My one other piece of feedback is a hit animation or something on the player, and maybe a knockback. That bull is ruthless.

But otherwise, very good job on pushing through to the end!

It's a cool concept, and I had a lot of fun running around trying to shoot the sun sphere at the various birds, turtles, and dogs. I couldn't get very far though because it's really hard to control the ball. If pulling the ball made it start following you again, that might make it easier to control? Or if it kept doing damage even after bouncing. Or if you could control the direction of the push a little easier, it would make it easier to time your attacks. Heck maybe even just being able to whack the ball in a specific direction with the mouse would make the bounce control easier. (Like deflecting bullets with melee weapons in Nuclear Throne).

I did run into a bug where the ball wouldn't move after I pressed space, it would keep changing color and getting stronger, but since it wouldn't move I never got to hit anything. It went away after I restarted the game and I was able to play normally.

But overall super cool idea, cool aesthetic, and I would love to see more. I think it's got a lot of potential if you're able to fine-tune the core gameplay a bit and make controlling the ball easier.

I'm convinced this game will just never be for me, and that's ok. By which I mean, I find the central gameplay loop to be frustrating in itself for reasons I think I mentioned last phase (ball stops doing damage after touching a wall, feels finicky to control in tight situations, etc). It's a combination of little things that, combined with escalating difficulty (and my own memories of how similar weapons, like the disk in Tron 2.0, typically work), absolutely drives me insane from the options I want to have available and don't. I'm skipping most of my other feedback then and only mentioning what I liked, cause everything else I've seen seems perfectly fine for the existing design.

>What was your favorite moment or aspect?

I like the added color changing for when the orb is active as a weapon, and the push-your-luck aspect communicated by leaving the orb out without recalling it and letting the color change further. Not sure if the push your luck element was in earlier builds, but I can definitely tell now.