> The characters and the world gave me a Hollow Knight vibe
Haha, yes! I've been playing a lot of Silksong, I wanted to make something that felt a lot like that, but top-down. When I saw the theme was "masks" I jumped on the opportunity.
I would have loved to have added some progression system to make exploring more rewarding (and make it a little easier) but I got bogged down with a lot of other things (it's a game jam after all) so yeah it turns out to just be a fairly hard game overall hehe...