Hello! I have played your game for a while and I have some feedback for you! Some of it mirrors what others have said, however.
- I like that you have an options menu! A lot of games I've tried didn't even bother with that. It looked like you could remap buttons in your options as well, but it seems that that's not actually the case as of yet.
- I wish it had a pause menu so you could exit a fight early.
- The visual style of the menus & UI is great!
- The fact that it says "Take your time" when you use Spin Focus Mode... yeah there's no beating the Persona 5 allegations with that one.
- The character art is also fantastic! However - the stylization of the menus and the hand drawn character art seem to clash with one another, imo.
- I think there's supposed to be a natural progression to the fights, however they're all unlocked at the start. I chose 'Baba Yaga' (the first) in the menu for my first fight and the opening text reads "Monarch forgot to add text to this bullshit." Not the greatest first impression.
- Baba Yaga seems to be in your enemies list twice. I'm unsure if it's supposed to be a rematch or if this is a mistake.
- As others have said... everything about the actual combat feels nebulous and unclear.
- I'm fairly sure the point is to clear everything off the screen that is not your circle.
- The RPM in the corner is your health.
- You have bullet time and a chain attack.
- Beyond those facts, I'm not sure. I don't know when an attack is going to damage me vs. when it hurts an enemy, I don't have a good sense of how hurt an enemy is, and the arena is so large compared to the screen size I sometime found it hard to even find the enemies.
- There's no feedback to if you've won or lost a fight. I think I beat Onibancho twice, because then the screen put me onto Dwayne. Then when I fought Dwayne the screen also put me back on to Dwayne. So I think I lost the Dwayne fight and the game is telling me to retry it? Not sure though, it could just always put you on Dwayne after a fight.
- I only fought Onibancho, Dwayne, and Baba Yaga, but it seemed like they all had creative and unique mechanics to their fights! Good work there!
- There seemed to be hints of a story about Dracula. I didn't do all the fights so I didn't get the full picture, but that part seemed cool.
- I'm not sure what exactly is spinning? I guess the circles spin but since they're solid colors it's hard to tell. Some of the dialogue says the word 'spin' and the health is measured in 'RPM' but this didn't feel very clear to me.
And those are my thoughts. I hope I don't come across as too negative! I'm trying to offer constructive criticism to every game I rate! This one feels like it could be very fun if you manage to work out some kinks and communicate things better to the player!
Have a wonderful day and good luck in the Jam!