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Edmanbosch6 days ago(+1)

Visuals are really simple. The sea background is pretty though. The player character's flowing ponytail also looks nice. 

All the upgrades and expansions share the same sprite, which was confusing (although that didn't really matter much).

There's only one music track. It's neat, but that's all there is. I would've liked if there was at least maybe an ambient track for those dark areas. I think it would've improved the atmosphere.

It was funny to me how similar the abilities are to those in Spector of Torment. Nearly identical, in fact. On one hand, it's not exactly super original... but on the other hand Spector of Torment is really good, so I didn't have much of a problem with it. Plus, it’s a Metroidvania instead of a level-based platformer, which also makes things feel different.

There's a bit of jank in some places though:

- The direction of the... homing slash (not sure what to call it) felt a bit less reliable than Specter of Torment (although I may be misremembering). 

- You can phase into enemies when using the homing slash, causing you to take damage. This made me avoid going into the air and instead just attack staying grounded, which felt kinda bad imo. Specter of Torment had you bounce off of enemies instead, which not only avoided that issue but was also pretty fun to do in and of itself. Although, there are probably other ways to solve the issue that don't just involve doing what Specter of Torment did.

Also found a couple exploits:

- If you use the wall climb ability to run up off the edge of a wall and then press jump within a certain window after leaving the wall, you'll gain a bunch of height. It's a cool trick, but seems unintentional.

- You can spam the shift button with the float ability to stay in the air for a really long time. This one feels a little too cheesy, although that wasn't very relevant for anything (outside of being able to skip certain parts of a room when backtracking) since it was the last upgrade.

Also, it's not a big deal but there's no controller support, and I don't tend to like playing 2D platformers on a keyboard as much.

The reused witch bit was funny (even if there wasn't a more fitting ending). Item completion percentage is appreciated. Got 100%

Neat game.

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Nevermind34766 days ago(+1)

Thanks for playing!

The abyss area is very much meant to have no music, but I did intend on adding some kind of ambient sound to fill the silence that I ended up never getting around to before the deadline hit. As it stands it does feel kind of awkwardly silent there, yeah.

There's def still a lot of jank to work out in the exact behavior of the slash, yeah - making this has made me really appreciate some of the finer details of how it works in Specter of Torment. The direction picking is def still wonky - it doesn't take into account which direction you're actually facing when picking a target and the up/down distinction feels like it could maybe use a bit of tweaking as well. I'm a bit disappointed you found the i-frames too unreliable to actually use it for combat, I found slashing back and forth through enemies to be really satisfying (which does make me hesitant to go with Specter Knight's bounce as a solution to some of the jank, even though I'm definitely coming to realize that it does solve a lot of the problems I've been having). I def need to do a little more to prevent the player from being hit during a slash, I think it's mostly just that the i-frames are not really generous enough - I mentioned in another reply that they don't actually start immediately but they also cut off immediately when the slash's acceleration does which does sometimes leave you inside the enemy hitbox when they cut off, causing that "phasing in" phenomenon you're describing.

The extra height from the wall jump is something I noticed occasionally but could never quite place exactly what was triggering it - your description of it does sound correct though and I think I have an idea of what's causing it now. I'll def want to try to fix that as it does feel very weird and inconsistent with how the wall jump normally behaves. As for the hover thing I did actually properly notice that when testing and intentionally left it in since I thought it was a neat strat, but I didn't really test it enough to get a good gauge for exactly how powerful it is so it might need to be nerfed or removed.

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