Love how you have it stylized in the terminal, the art looks fantastic and the palette swap is a great touch. Great choice with the music and sound effects, too!

The playable character is adorable!
I also quite like the worldbuilding you've done here!

Very fun game, albeit a little hard. The shield didn't seem that helpful, though I forgot about the special attack. Died on the final boss.

This game rules! The aesthetic is great, it's fun, it's challenging. What else is there to say? Well, a few things, but they're pretty small.

First of all, the parry is brutal. Maybe it's a skill issue, but it felt like I got hit half the time I thought I'd get it. Dunno if it's an animation clarity thing, a strange timing window thing, or again, maybe him skill issue.

Second, no controller support means that I can't play it as the twinstick shooter I so want it to be. If you continue this project, I beg of you to add that.

Finally, I wish that I could zoom out some more. It wasn't common, but sometimes a bullet would come from nowhere, usually if I was locking on to something.

Beyond those things, though, it was a fantastic time! I'm forced to assume the lag is cleared up with the download (no Linux build D:), and all the mechanics work and work well. Great job!

no linux build D:

i love the art style and it's very juicy!  though it could use some subtle screenshake

i can't actually type commands, sadge

i think the default aiming mode should be mouse, the arcade mode constantly misses because it doesn't shoot ahead of the enemies

you also shouldn't make the players manually pick the tutorial, because most don't (i sure didn't, which is why i played my first playthrough without parrying at all haha). and wall of text tutorials usually don't work great, they're hard to remember and interactive tutorials are much better at teaching 

the ui is a bit confusing, i had no idea where my health was until i did a couple of runs

it's pretty unclear when you hit the parry and when you miss, the little knockback makes it look like you did get hit

the difficulty is also pretty brutal, the player's projectiles are small and don't travel that fast, you only heal 1 health per round which is way too little, and the first boss is already pretty difficult. i'm not a fan of its telegraphing, i feel like it would be clearer if the laser attack did a little pulse once it's fully charged up and only then actually attacked, the attack where they circle you and shoot one-by-one is nearly impossible to dodge/parry - they stay locked on to you way too well to dodge them by moving and they shoot way too frequently to dodge them by parrying

for being such a core mechanic, the parry is very unforgiving. it would be nice to have some grace, so if you parry a couple of frames too late it still counts, as well as the hurtbox increasing while you're parrying so you can parry attacks further than you would get hit

i also kept forgetting that i had my ultimate ability, it'd be nice to have some sort of indicator

funnily enough, i got the furthest in my very first playthrough where i had no idea you could even parry - i got to the second phase of the second boss, while on the next ones i couldn't even beat the first boss (because of that circling attack, it's just way too hard D:)

tl;dr: it's great and the polish is amazing, but please playtest your game more

it was good but i have no idea what the health bar is lol.

Really solid entry and good amount of juice! I like the overall game play and aesthetics, but I found your UI to be a little confusing—this is a place where I would have tried to find a better way to balance your aesthetic with the usability/readability of the different elements for navigating the menus and understanding my current health. I'm looking forward to seeing where you take your dev journey from here!

This is amazing!! How long have you been making games? Even if its hard (not necessarily a bad thing) ts veeery very polished and i really apprecieted all the computery sfx and effects, the gameplay is also very good since its very simple to control and just so fun to move and shoot, the only issue that i had is about the bullet, sometimes it could be a little bit hard to identify the difference between the player's bullets and the enemy bullets in the doppleganger fight

Great game! I like the boss designs and attack patterns, especially the laser animations and the computer terminal aesthetic was cool as well. Had lots of fun playing it and after multiple rounds managed to reach depth 20 but the game crashed while spawning the boss and so wasn't able to save my high score. The color switch in the second boss while visually interesting did throw off my flow a lot. Overall a really fun and well polished game.

The polish on the main menu was sooo good. The gameplay was dynamic and the different control schemes was super impressive.

As others have noted the ui in the game was hard to read, so a tutorial wouldn’t have gone astray.

Awesome Game !

The gameplay is really good. Enemy logic is well designed. The auto aim feature is really nice (even a must-have for arcade).

Audio is also really complete : I like the music, and there are good SFXs.

Everything feel polished : animations, art...

I have only one suggestion : make it understandable faster for a new player. I died twice to figure out where are counted HP and charging.

Awesome game!

My one comment, but this is being picky, because there is truly nothing to say, is that at first I thought the "charge bottles" for your ultimate were already filled, my brain considers the "white one" the "empty one" haha

Really cool shooter!  Your boss scripting is great, it's nice to see more than the usual "shoot at player" logic in many games.

I hope you add gamepad support in future, it would really benefit from it.

A solid entry.

Also please play my game! <3

Hard game, but i love it, it's really funny, at the first moment i really didn't understand the controls, i  think that a tutorial could be really good, for introduce the player in this first moment, but it's a really good game, wish to share the podium with you :) game with a lot of potential!

Very hard game, this may be one of the game that makes the player hates parrying. Pressing a button at the right time has been a thing for rhythm games and some other games, and I do believe there should be windows for Imperfections just like most rhythm games. I mostly parried imperfectly and the punishment was the same as taking a normal damage. Attacking an enemy feels very difficult, I feel like the arcade player wouldn't even get a chance to beat the final boss.

But the game is somewhat addictive. The amount of polishes are things that made me replayed the game multiple times.

Wow, this game is quite fun and slightly addictive!