I really like the concept, and as a big sekiro fan, it's pretty intuitive mechanics-wise. It might be because I'm playing in the browser, but I definitely felt the stutters, and specifically coming out of bullet-time while enemies are attacking makes timing the parry window _very_ difficult. I have a bunch of small game-feel criticisms that I think mean that this game is something I really want to get some proper fleshing out after the jam, I can see something genuinely sick if you can nail how the game feels. I'd love the camera to be centered, and a little higher up, as its hard to see enemies some times. I'm a little unsure about the red balloons only being visible during bullet time, and I'd like to have health be a little clearer. Some logic in multiple enemies to keep them from timing their attacks to frame-trap you, enemy variety, I could go on, but the core idea is delicious, great job!
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Thank you for the feedback. Honestly means so much to me that you want to critique it that thoughtfully, lets me know you can really see it. Yeah I wish I had more time to properly stress test the browser version, and across different machines, unfortunately just started getting too close to the wire, running natively it is a lot better and I imagine would be on more machines, plus there's probably some low hanging optimization fruit. I totally agree with all your critiques, from the tuning to the features to the experimentation, its all stuff I would've explored much more if I had more time, hopefully still will. Thanks again