I have mixed feelings about my experience with this. I absolutely love the graphical style, it has a strong late 90s pc indie and/or ps1 vibe i enjoy a lot!

The combat does not feel great though. I very much disliked having to collect the double jump again after dieing to the boss so after trying a few times i gave up. It felt very difficult to fight the boss because its choice of attack was random and if it did the grab at the wrong times and place it felt impossible to avoid. If the grab box was more fair I wouldn't have minded as much, but i felt like it would successfully grab me when the actual graphic of it's arm was nowhere near me. By the end I just had to hope that it would do its ground slam attack enough times, but it didn't happen for me.

The graphical vibe of the game alone is enough to have a solid jumping off point, but the gameplay needs work. Great job submitting something though and I had a fun time trying it. I look forward to seeing how this game grows post jam!

Love the 2.5D, love the scenary and art style, the background is paralax layer? or are them also at 3D? nice character movement and combat, keep it going! nice game

In response to your comments on my submission, this does NOT lack personality!

the movement mechanics are nice, the game play is fun, a save point would make getting killed by the boss a bit less annoying, (as would me being any good), but the boss catching you and throwing you is a lovely touch.

Given it's a very melee heavy game maybe you could add a dodge or roll or something, that is if you are going to continue working on it?

Great art! it feels nice but not fun of the jump dificulty, it breacks a little the action but very nice work, well done!

This game is really up my alley. 

The attacking feels nice and in control but that doesn't make the game easy which is impressive to accomplish, especially in such a short timeframe. 

The one issue I had is the difficulty of the boss which is not necessarily easy to get back to. This made it a bit discouraging for me to continue. Something I was thinking of for my own submission (for further development) was creating some form of upgrade that allows for fast travel in some capacity. I feel like this might be something cool to add to Secrets of the Cursed Mountain as well. 

Reminds me of those old-timey puppet movies in a good way. Nice use of the 3D to create some space as well. The effect for the attack could perhaps be aligned more to the direction of the model's swing to look like the blade itself is creating the slash.

Looking forward to where you all take this.

This was cute. I know they're not really alike, but the underground feel and the torches gave me a mincraft sort of vibe. I really liked the simplicity of the background art as well. Lots of really nice animations here as well, I was particularly impressed with the boss grabbing and throwing me. I also like the damage numbers, they're viscerally satisfying.

The two things that bothered me was how fast the fall speed was and that I couldn't seem to damage the boss? Maybe I was missing something, I fought him twice and died both times without seeing a single damage number pop-up.

Otherwise, very solid entry!

Any chance this could be playable in the browser?

This is an excellent submission. I love the game feel, I love the way the upgrades show a short title of the upgrade when you get them, the melee attacking feels nice and works really well, the platforming design is challenging enough but intuitive, the boss fight killed me (because I sucked at it) and I think it's really impressive (really nice animations and design), and great polish in the UI and design. Great submission!

Great game!  Awesome boss!! Really nice choice on music too .  The lighting effects are really cool and the action feels smooth.

A checkpoint before the boss would have been a very welcome addition, and the sword attack feels like it could use a bit of tweaking in the direction of the swing.  A combo system would be really cool. But wow, Good job!

I REALLY LIKE THIS ONE! Tha platforming is really fun and the boss was really cool! I wasn't sure how to damage him though and died instantly. The one respawn point sending me back to the beginning of the game made me not want to get to the point to fight him again, despite how cool he was. The one respawn point made late game platforming less fun too

ART

Nice style, felt almost like it was out of a fairytale book, liked the stones too. animations were nice.

SOUND

Loop was ok and the other effects were fine.

GAMEPLAY

Think I managed to get the attack to ignore the cooldown, was weird if I jump I could attack like I had rapid fire or something.

Platforming was good, new controls were good. Camera needs to let me see below.  Enemies tracking felt a little rough as they would block where I wanted to go so I had to take damage. Couldn't figure the boss out, but it chucking me was great! No checkpoint was a little rough and having to do everything again was annoying after 3 deaths, I ended up giving up which is sad.

OVERALL

Good entry, really liked the style - Great job on submitting! 

Had a great time playing this! Thank you for sharing. Defeating enemies was satisfying and I felt like the sword carried weight. If I were to offer some constructive feedback, it'd be that when the character is falling, you can't see what's underneath them. Especially considering the rock golems seem to track you, it makes platforming very difficult when moving in a downward trajectory. 

Great work! 

Lovely Design and well made.

the hitbox of the Character is to Huge in my opinion.  Feels weird that the small sword make a huge wave like that.

I think the Boss bugged at me the first time, i couldn't get over him and he pushed me inside the gate and couldn't do something.

Good Work and deserves more Content.

Cute style, nice to see a 3D metroidvania. I thought that the balancing animation was awesome! The boss throwing you was cool too. My main bugbear was in the control scheme... If you had added controller support for this it would have been a really easy win tbh... space to jump would have been better in my opinion, and maybe COMMA to attack (to be fair, that's how I have my game set up so I might be biased!)

Cute style. I like how the boss throws you.

Biggest issue for me at least was not having space to jump, I feel like that's more of the standard then "w".

Really cool graphics style! The controls feel nice too, although the camera handling could use some more attention. Often you don't know where you'll end up if you fall. I couldn't get passed the boss, because there was no save before it... That's sad, because I did damage it the second time, but didn't feel like running through all the map again to have another shot.

Keep it up, and make it a little more forgiving! Great job!

I love the aesthetic! The boss is really annoying. Great job!

I really dig the visuals and the 2.5D aspect. The atmospheric music ties in perfectly with the aesthetic as well. Jumping and double jumping felt a little off, but that is probably me, since I'm used to spacebar being the jump button. I also liked the damage indicators. From the entries I've played so far, that hasn't appeared much. I don't even have em :S.  Overall, I enjoyed this game!

Really like the presentation and the atmosphere both the music and lighting provide ^^

Gameplay wise the character feels nice and responsive, and the melee range is clearly defined with that big slash effect, i also like the fact that you made the damage numbers pop up for every attack.

The only small issue i encountered was with the double jump that seemed a bit inconsistent with the second jump's height, there was one jump in particular where i had to try multiple times to climb up and only managed to reach the upper platform by luck, i feel that some of the double jump platform heights should be just a tad bit lower to fix this.

Despite that it's a cool game and i had fun playing it, i didn't go all that far cause i lost a bit of health trying to damage boost up that difficult jump, so when i reached the boss he destroyed me almost instantly haha :p

Anyway, solid entry, and keep up the good work if you intend to keep working on it :)