I really liked the art style the drawings are beautiful. However, I found the game extremely difficult. I assume this was intentional, but unfortunately, it discouraged me from playing further. The difficulty didn’t feel like something I could overcome by mastering the mechanics or gradually getting stronger; instead, my character felt far too weak compared to the boss, and with very limited mechanics, I didn’t feel much control over the challenge. Because of that, the gameplay couldn’t really pull me in.

Of course, I understand that in a short game jam timeframe it’s nearly impossible to design such deep combat mechanics. Still, maybe there could have been a different approach to balance it out for example, instead of the character only attacking directly, adding another mechanic or layer of interaction might have provided more options and made the difficulty feel fairer.

Also, I noticed that when I launched the game, the audio didn’t work the first two times, but it worked on the third attempt. I’m not sure why this happened, but I thought it might be worth mentioning.

An interesting idea to just have the boss battle with nothing else but I don't know if it pays off. The player character takes way to long to do anything so you just waiting there after you attacked, knowing you're going to get hit but you can't do anything. Also nothing happens after you win? That was so underwhelming, maybe there is something but I bugged out? The game's difficult overall is way too much, I only actually won because you can stun lock the boss if you keep attacking. 

I probably know your going to balance this game after the jam and make it clearable, but there is something very wonderful about this Jam build. I am a huge fan of Sega Genesis are arcade action games (not sure if you played my game but it is also a hack n slash game) And there is something wonderful about a good action game and that there is limitless depth. No question you game is brutal hard but there also seems like there is so much room for improving and getting better and I want to and I am determined to beat atleast a boss in your game. Not sure if your a Devil May Cry fan, but in the first game there is a lava spider boss and I can stll remember how hard that first boss was and how often I died to it, however now when I play, I wipe the floor with him everytime. I feel your game has a similar learning curve. You give the attack and dodge mechanics and thats literally the tools you need.

Sorry I am really long winding this comment. Your game is awesome! I played and noticed you had no music and I would love to write you 2 tracks for your game if thats ok. Not sure if you played my game (Cathedral of Decay) Im not the greatest musician but I feel you game warrents some custom music and I promise I will do my best to deliever on your vison if you want

This one was pretty difficult—even when trying to spam my attacks I kept getting knocked aside by that foul bloom. I loved the graphics and audio here, and I think with some difficulty tweaking and more responsive feeling controls this could be really fun. Thanks for making and sharing!

The game is hard but I had fun, also great music and art man. good work :)

This game reminds me of Hollow Knight! I found it a bit hard because the attack hitbox feels really small… or maybe I’m just bad lol! Nice game!

the menu sounds are VERY loud. the game is quite fun tho