I really enjoyed it despite kinda sucking, the controls feel smooth and it feels great cruising and styling on the peasants. Somehow the fact that diagonal movement isnt properly normalized is also balanced because you can't shoot diagonally. Story is great, gameplay is great, if a little unforgiving, the only thing I'm not a fan of is how difficult it can be to tell whether you took damage and from what, I feel like I died quite a few times without really knowing from where or took a huge chunk of damage without knowing why. Picking up blood droplets could also be more consistent unless I'm just bad.
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I wasn't too sure how to make damage more apparent, could add subtle screenshake or impact frames or something? With the blood droplets it's easiest to get them while the enemy is dying, as they spray out a bunch of them during their death animation. If there aren't any other enemies nearby you can actually just stand on top of them and get a bunch of free health. The grenade is also great for getting blood fast, you can bomb a big horde of enemies and stand underneath them, there are also stationary enemies later in the game that are basically free blood sources.