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This was really fun! I love vampire survivors and it was cool to see it recreated in pico-8 with a bomb theme fitting the jam :) 

The level of polish felt quite high, the art was good, you had some fitting music that was pretty good as well (if a bit repetetive) and some nice sound effects.

I do think that one of my favorite aspects of vampire survivors was missing, which is when you have huge waves of enemies that all get melted. I figured it was an engine limitation though, as when I got deep into runs the game would start lagging a lot even with just 100 enemies on screen.

I also found it a bit too easy, but that might just be because I've grinded a lot of vampire survivors. On my second run I was basically unkillable and only died at level 50 or something when the game was lagging so badly I couldn't tell what was happening.

Overall a really impressive submission, doing this in pico-8 seems insane to me so I was blown away by that, as well as with the number of abilities and characters you had, really well done! :D

Thanks for the feedback! I'm not really the best at making music and the loop is definitely way too short, but I hope it didn't severely impact your experience. Part of the low frame rates and lagginess can be blamed on Pico-8's limitations, but I do really need to work on optimization as well. I also think I should adjust the difficulty curve so it steepens a bit after reaching 8 upgrades, the main reason I kept it relatively easy is to not overwhelm people who might be new to the genre, so if it gets harder later it doesn't greatly impact their experience, but still provides a challenge to people who might find it too easy. Thanks again for all this great feedback, and I'm happy you enjoyed!