I thought this was pretty cute and definitely had an MSX feel to it! There was a strong variety of enemy mechanics against such a simple player character, and there were other nice touches too, like the explicit warnings about not being able to explore an area yet (dark/landmines). My only real misgiving was with the fetch quest to get the item to fight the final boss with... if there'd been more of that thing in the game before then, I'd have been more likely to do that exploring on my own and find/remember that 4 gate. As it was, I'd gotten through the rest of the game by targeting one corner of the map after another, so that quest came out of nowhere and took a long time to figure out. But overall there were fun challenges and cute graphics, so thank you for making this.