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Really solid! Because of what I’ll mention at the end, my save file bricked and I wasn’t able to get particularly far, only to the Lost Village, but I liked the overall feel of the game, my only real complaint about the core movement is the jump just feeling a little lacking. I really liked the… aerial slash, that’s the best name I can come up with for it (lol), while I feel it’s a little finicky since you need to make sure you’re below it if you’re trying to go up and make sure you’re on the correct side of it, it’s not super hard to adjust to and mostly only gets in your way if you’re going too fast. That said, sections where you had to use it on enemies did really frustrate me, mainly because it seemed like sometimes you wouldn’t be able to slice through an enemy without taking damage, other times you would, so trying it with low health could be punishing, and if you accidentally killed the enemy, you’d need to completely reload the room to try again. As far as presentation goes, the music really stood out to me, I felt like it added a lot to the vibe of the game, and the visuals (though a bit dark at times) were all around well done.

I somehow managed to get into a glitched state where the game wasn’t loaded past a black screen, and then the pause menu appeared twice, after which the game just stuck at a solid black screen. This happened when I tried to quickly quit and reload my file, and afterwards my file refused to load.

Thank you!

Yeah, the issue with only sometimes getting hit when slashing through an enemy is because there's a very short windup period before the i-frames from the slash kick in. The intent was to add a bit of risk to using the slash, but since there's not really a clear indication of when that period occurs it kind of just ended up making the slash feel confusingly inconsistent even for me. I ended up shortening that period as a last minute attempt to mitigate that but I think I probably need to go further and just completely remove or rework the mechanic entirely.

The issue with the black screen is definitely a really weird bug, could you give some more details about what the exact inputs you were trying to make when quickly quitting and reloading were? Also, I'm not sure what exactly you mean by the file refusing to load - did the game get stuck/freeze again when trying to load it, or something else? Does the issue persist if you try going back into the game now?

By refusing to load, I mean that pressing Enter or Z to load the file simply does nothing, it doesn’t even kick me out of the menu. Starting a new file or loading other files seems to work fine. This persists even after refreshes, and it still does this even loading it just now.

What I was trying to do was just quit and reload as fast as I could, so since the file I was using was the top one, I was just mashing Enter once I hovered over quit. I don’t believe I was in the death animation when this happened, but I could be misremembering. After that, I was at a black screen with the HUD visible, so I opened the menu again and tried quitting. After that, I appeared in some gray area with only a partial background and the character quickly fell off screen. I once again opened the menu and tried to quit, and it got stuck at a black screen this time. After I refreshed the page, the file was bricked.

I don’t know how relevant it is, but I’m playing the web version in Firefox 148.0.2.

Well, that turned out to be pretty easy to recreate and also pretty easy to fix... it turns out i just, completely forgot to disable the ui during the little fade to black before loading your file, so when you were spamming enter it ended up loading up the game multiple times with multiple copies of everything, which lead to all the weirdness you're describing. Really embarrassing mistake, should be fixed for postjam though -.-

I still don't understand how this ended up bricking your file though - the game is supposed to just ignore corrupt files and plop you into a new save if one fails to load. Could you try opening the console and seeing what kind of error its putting out when you try to load it?

Okay, so I have absolutely no idea why, but when trying to see what it said in the console, the file appeared to load perfectly fine this time. My exact sequence of steps was to load the console, attempt to load the file, the first time nothing happened, I loaded a different file without issue, I returned to the main menu, and this time the broken file loaded just fine. I’m even at the correct save point. Also, only on this test did I notice the life marker was at 1 while it wasn’t working, but now it’s at 3 while the file is working.

As a result, I don’t have any errors listed in the console, nothing from past sessions either from what I can see.

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Hmm, that is really weird. I hope that doesn't mean it was an unrelated issue the whole time.

Well, hopefully it's not, and the fix for the other issue will also prevent this from happening as well. Thanks for your help with this!

No problem! A bit of a shame I couldn’t get more info on the save file issue, but still glad I was able to point out some things so you could fix them!