The combo between bullet hell and turn-based combat was super fun! The only thing I had to keep reminding myself was to have my fingers back on the movement keys when I made my attack choice. Sometimes I would choose "fight" or "spell" and forget that a bone was barreling towards my lil ghost. D:

But all in all well done! I liked that I got to sit on a bench in one of the rooms. The ghost's little shimmy to hop off the bench made my day.

This is like an almost perfect game jam submission, I love the pixel art, it has a great gameplay system with varied enemies & a leveling system, it's short AND BEATABLE (so many game jam games just don't have an ending), and it's all just well made & polished. You're really only missing some music maybe and then you'd be golden

Surprisingly engaging for its simplicity. Definitely felt like I was powering up as I gained upgrades. I liked how I eventually got to bust out a whole bunch of attacks in a row. I felt like there was a missed opportunity for some tactics in differing attacks. For example, if attacking were to hit every enemy in a straight line while spellcasting did an area-of-effect attack on the target, now all of sudden I'd have a reason to choose one attack over the other strategically and should consider both my and enemy position when the turn timer is about to pop. All in all, this was fun!

Absolutely love the idea of a turn-based bullet hell game! My favorite things here are the feel of the dash (particles & sound), and I think you did great with the art style & graphics too. Obviously this is wearing its Undertale influence on its sleeve, but I do feel like the JRPG combat on our turn is a bit out of place in what is otherwise an action roguelike with more combat-focus rather than narrative focus. I don't mind pausing, but I think it would be cool to have our attacks embodied in the environment still, so maybe something like aiming all our magic projectiles during our paused turn, and then having the enemies try to avoid them? Or maybe forgoing the pause and making "turns" more a push and pull between bullet hell & bullet heaven style gameplay.

Awesome submission, and I hope you'll keep working on it!