Overall thoughts
Even if full of placeholder art, i found everything great. i played it was a "game" and not as "let's review". I was fully in the game, so i didn't even remembered to alt tab out to take notes. i just played N+ with shotguns on XBLA
I could totaly see this as a game on sale, sell it as a "N+ with guns" and enjoy some money for me too.
dunno how much polish you wanna add. imo dev asap as many levels as you can while you market it; ship it when you start to blow up on socials.
Random notes
- Got lucky and unlocked lvl4 on my first try. ò__o
- but holy eff, i can't finish lvl4 at all -__-''
- dunno how useful life can be, since you die at most in 2 hits. a that point, maybe add a "hit" system like bayonetta challenges, and give a player 2-3 hits of life (nice cave story ui tho)
- i like as lot that weapons are punchy, sound great and are different on a design level
- magnum bounce bullet is very lmao; machine gun imo might be the worse weapon, since it's use is almost the same of the shotgun (for what i saw in the levels)
- the only thing i dont like is the loooooooooooooooooooooong wait for an axe kick. maybe in a few hours u can "get" the delay like the classicvania chain, but i dunno.