Amazingly executed shooter. Pure commercial-level quality polish in the animations, music, art, and story. My only frustration was not being able to enjoy using the power ups because I'm bad at the game! :P

I suppose one minor complaint I had was that it was hard to distinguish the tiny blobs from regular bullets at a glance.

I had the good fortune to be playing this late enough to be able to enjoy the B-side, and I found Camilla's combat system more unique and interesting. It felt good having the knowledge that I was as powerful as I could be at all times.

I was pretty hyped to play this after seeing all the mindblowingly good progress gifs you were posting on Discord. I'm very happy to report that it lived up to the hype and beyond! Great work and I'm super excited to see what you do next!

I had flashbacks to the arcades of the 90's while playing this game. No doubt this game would have devoured my measly weekly allowance back in the day. The art is very polished, and the audio design fits perfectly. I especially appreciate the voice acting, which not only adds a dimension of immersion, but also helps reduce the burden of the UI to communicate what's going on so I can concentrate more on the action. Making the health meter switch to the bottom of the screen when June flies to the top is a brilliant touch, too.

The first stage is HARD. Maybe not Silver Surfer-grade hard, but it's still pretty unforgiving, and you go all the way back to the beginning when you die. I also don't like how easy it is to lose powerups - I'm lucky if I can keep one for more than a few seconds due to the amount of damage I take through the level. I couldn't finish the first level because I would get to the boss, then die and have to start over. Something about the balance should be adjusted, whether it's making powerups "stickier" or reducing the amount of bullets on screen at a time, and add a checkpoint before the boss so the player doesn't have to lose all of their progress.

Overall, this is an excellent entry and can be enjoyable if the player is either really good at dodging the bullets or willing to overcome the frustrating difficulty factor.

First stage took me three tries; second and third stage took me no retries, fourth stage took me ~4 retries I think. But I finally did it. Really took a while to get used to the control and the hitbox.

First, the good parts:

The graphics are top notch, especially the background. It's apparent the amount of effort put into this game.

The boss designs are awesome. Putting ominous overpowering boss right at the start -- love it.

The theme interpretation is pretty creative -- and I like the story with the ancient sanctuary.

And the music -- as expected. Esp. the one for the last boss is epic.

Kinda hard to believe you started somewhat late.

I can't overlook, however, the issues I had with this game:

• The movement control... is the biggest complain I have with this game. It's way too slippery; and since it seems you are indeed somewhat aiming for a bullet hell with the amount of bullets there, in my opinion slippery control like this is a big no. Can't squeeze through tight gaps with this control y'know... which imo is one of the main funs of playing bullet hell games XD
  • Also... I have got a feeling there are some issues with the arrow keys control input. I found the WSAD control to be much more responsive; the arrow keys seem to sometimes fail to let me move diagonally.
• I think it'd be more fun if the shooting attacks is a little bit more powerful... or at least give an illusion that it's more powerful than it looks -- for example by making the shot rate (much) faster, adding some enemies that are easily mowed, etc.
• Minor issue: The wave attack. Since its bullets go up and down I don't think wave bullets should be deleted when going off screen vertically
• Idk... but personally I find it just a liiittle bit annoying when a gigantic boss with gigantic area of denial can only be damaged in one specific spot with tiny hitbox :P. Just a suggestion: how about if you make the boss be able to be damaged anywhere but gets more damage when hit at the weak spot(s)?

Overall still a good game. Keep up the good work!

good stuff, I died like a bajillion times to beat it eventually.

I was really, really hyped for this one. A Change of Heart and Within Her HeART were amazing, and the teasers you posted had me salivating. I ended up let down though this wasn't any fault of yours- I'll get to this shortly.

The art and music are great. I really like the opening animation, although I'd seen that before it was a treat to see it again. The menu is also very polished and even has buttons that light up and make noise.

It is very small in my browser, so I can see why fullscreen is recommended.

I really, really wanted to play this game to completion. Unfortunately I never got past the first level. I do agree with Thoof that the heavy movement with a lot of inertia is kind of questionable given how precisely and quickly you need to move, though I think one could get used to it. I've also stated my thoughts on positive feedback loops earlier in the Discord- I don't like how starting to lose makes the game harder. I'm also terrible at bullet hells in general, so there's that.

That being said I think the gameplay is mostly solid. I didn't really have much of a chance to get used to it is the thing.

I couldn't play much because this game gave me horrendous eyestrain. I don't know why that is. The last game I played that did that to me was Zombie Driver- another game which I really liked but reached a point where I couldn't play any longer- and I have no idea why that did it to me either. I don't think it's anything you did, and I don't think the majority of players will have an issue with it, but I was only able to play a few minutes.

I'm not sold on the status bar moving from top to bottom, and I found it very hard to read at a glance, but again I didn't play much and... eyestrain.

Finally, June can fly now?

I still do think this is one of the best games in the jam, though I'm not sure if I should try to rate it because I didn't/couldn't play much of it.