I really enjoyed this entry. The art style was great, especially loved the glowing confetti gun (though it got extremely hectic visually, it looked extremely pretty). The music was just the right mix of foreboding and arcadey, punctuated with great sound effects. The toy soldiers noise was great.
The gameplay was very polished and smooth. I especially loved that dashing reloads your gun. I don’t think I’ve seen that before, but it felt very smooth. The upgrade system got a little bit samey, I would have liked more interesting upgrades, and I kept getting repeats of the dash length / invincible dash mechanic. But overall felt great, and I liked the variety of the different weapons. The confetti cannon was flat out broken though, I only lost because I wanted to test the final weapon I hadn’t tried for review purposes, I feel like i could hold off death indefinitely with the confetti gun :P
Also I wanted to mention there are a lot of little juicy effects, like the wave number tweening in for example, that made the game feel very polished.
Overall a great entry and I had a lot of fun with it. Great work!