Thank you so much for the in-depth comment! Really means a lot to get a glimpse into the player side of things, especially when our entries were so different.
You’ve definitely touched on the main things I’m taking away from the jam - a good tutorial I think would have been super helpful to ease people into the game, rather than relying on just the tool tips. I did include some instructions for the monsters that have weird mechanics - both the armored monsters and the winged ones before it have a status icon you can mouse over - but it seems like those have been either real easily missed or not informative enough.
The armored enemies seem to have been a wall for a lot of people, so you’re not alone in that! Their armor does intentionally increase much more rapidly than you can get through it, which is supposed to guide you to try other ways to damage it - I definitely could have made that path more obvious though. The action sticking from the previous round is also unintentional, but considering it helps the player I’m not mad it’s there.
So glad you enjoyed the art, and especially the writing passages! I didn’t realise until now it gives that text-adventure flair in the way it appears to the player, but I’m delighted that’s the takeaway - I’ve always been a writer first, so it was nice to flex those muscles even in a small way - and while the intro wasn’t the original plan it’s gotten a bunch of laughs, so I’ll take the win. :D