Playing back on the game again, it would have been nice to code in so that you can retry your fight against her with the same initial health or replay the entire game again at full health if you feel you have too little health left at that point. Alas there wasn't enough time to implement it for the jam.

I would not suggest dodging the zombies too much as their attacks are quite hard to dodge in the first place and with less zombies cleared out of the map, the easier they can pile up and surround you in numbers, forcing you into an unwinnable situation.

Perhaps I should make her stabbing attacks from Heavy and Light > Heavy have a further thrust forward to differentiate from the other attacks. Also probably make Light > Light > Heavy even stronger. I also found myself doing Light > Light really often.

Youmu will not move mid-combo. I kind of made her windup and cooldown times between her attacks too long so she feels a little unresponsive at times. The zombies also lunge too far forward so dodging their attacks is a lot tougher than intended.

Zombies lunging way too far forward (and Youmu lunging forward for too short a distance with her attacks) will be addressed when refining this game. By right, they should be the easiest enemies to fight, but balancing wasn't done and the boss was even easier if you know how to cheese her.

I did not have time to properly do playtesting, meaning that the zombies have A LOT more reach than they probably should have when lunging at Youmu. The boss has two attacks that are quite easy to notice when you see whether she moves towards or away from you, and she'll ALWAYS open with the same attack.

It's one of the less recognised songs throughout Touhou since it isn't really associated with any one particular character, I'm glad you caught it, even after obscuring it further with the (I feel) unorthodox arrangement and instrumentation. I wanted to go for an acid house feel to it, but I felt I didn't properly nail it due to the lack of time and proper research into the genre. One song that I was taking a lot of reference from for this arrangement was New Order's "Vanishing Point" for their 1989 album "Technique", though as I said, no time to truly flesh the song out.

Glad you liked the artstyle too. It's one I feel strikes a good level of simplicity to feature characters that are still distinct enough but quick to draw and animate for something as small scaled as a jam.

RIP Flash. Fullscreen was considered but I, for some reason, chose to make my game run on a 640 x 480 resolution, meaning that stretching that to a fullscreen will look quite ugly, I think.

Also, you can press [Z] and [X] to do light and heavy attacks instead of [LMB] and [RMB].

I did not have the time to properly balance out the game. The boss is unironically a lot easier than the horde you fight earlier if you figure out her pattern and exploit it.

We'll see how tough college gets for me. If things sail smooth enough, expect something out of this in the middle of 2023.

youmu loves you too (in a platonic sense)

Thank you, figuring out a streamlined process to draw out the combos was quite a great discovery I made for this jam. For Youmu, I initially drew individual parts like various heads (5 variations), torsos/legs (4 variations), swords (the short Hakuroken and long Roukanken) & slashes as separate pieces, and then stitched one another together (as separate layers initially, but then flattened) to form individual frames of every attack animation.

In the end, 20 of 25 frames drawn for Youmu were used for the game, with the last 5 focused on a feature I had to scrap in the interest of time.