Man, I needed some boomer shooter today and this delivered it on a plate. I like the visuals, especially the Shiorin lair was very climactic. The animations were nice, especially Biboo's Judgment cut. The music also fitted really well, especially the last optional boss-fight.
The difficulty was surely there but I managed to complete it, including optional final boss. My three little complains:
- Biboo's attack seemed impossible to dodge, I tried with dash but to no avail. I assume that it is by design and we are simply on a timer here, but it could be somehow hinted to the player that they cannot dodge this attack, so they should focus the boss instead of defeating minions
- It could be better signaled that Shiorin can be damaged only during her attack. The confusion doubled by the fact that she is damaged when her minions die. So at first I assumed that I need to keep killing minions and after 3 times running of out ammo I figured that there must be a way to damage her more reliably and indeed there was. Imo you could signal this by her having a sort of shield visible at all times and it disappears only during her attack animation
- Super minor: In the Shiorin fight, the doors had 3D knobs, which made me thing that there was a way to enter the second floor. I tried several times, but I assume that it is just nice detail on the doors (but a way to enter second floor like a stage 2 would be very nice)
From bugs side:
- after completing a stage, sometimes my rig would fly to the moon. I suspect that just FPS increases there to hundreds so a v-sync or fps limiter should solve it (unless it is something else). I played Win build downloaded through itch app.
- after dying several times in the optional final boss fight, defeating 4 bosses without Shiorin completes the stage. I think the same does not happen when completing the stage in a single run so it could be related to dying in the boss fight at least once
Overall I really enjoyed playing this, I hope you will push this further, e.g. add more weapons, more enemies, more attack patterns, more locations (maybe a Doom-like dungeon). Can't wait for that post-jam update o7