I just tried your game and died before reaching even floor 10. The spikes really did me in and a battle finished me off. I gotta agree with Drifty on this one, it seems hard for the sake of being hard. The lack of money and the heavy pricing made me quite nervous to even spend anything.

Some small bugs:

• I also noticed some typos: it's spelled "Renaissance fair", "my business", "apparently".
• It's a shame that the faceset doesn't change when you change clothes, but I'm assuming you probably lacked the time to do that.
• The bins on the same row as the soda machines aren't interactable and neither is the trashbag to the north (Wright street).

I do want to say that I really like your art; it's quite amazing what you've accomplished in one month. I was also impressed with your world building. I felt like I got a pretty good grasp of it, even though I only played for a bit.

You play as a police officer in a cute pixel art world. There are tons of pseudo-secrets and interactable events. 

The sound effects could of been picked better and they become grating very quick especially if you don't immediately turn them down.  

Giving enemies counterattack leads to unnecessary frustration and the battle system is ultimately imbalanced.  

The 'Save Room' should have been called 'Safe Room' where you restore HP/EN. Because of all the spikes you have to dodge you end up with 1 HP even when your using all your items. Super hard for no reason.  I don't know how you're expected to do this without save scrubbing and avoiding all combats after you have no items or HP and no way to restore life except by passing the day, but that involves backtracking through several maps and cutscenes and is also limited to only 7 days(Times you can recover HP).  

There's no 'reset puzzle' button so when you get yourself stuck in the blocks you just have to end the game and load, and if you happen to save the game in that position, well you better start a new game because that file is now borked. 

The items you get don't make sense level wise. The cost of some items is too high and some are too low, it all feels arbitrary. You should get stronger items as you go deeper, not weaker gear. Also why no healing items? When you lose all you HP to spikes over and over you have to run from every fight and when you fail to or get ambushed, you just die. The whole save scrub again try again is not a fun process. Sure you can buy a few healing items in town, but you don't get nearly enough money to get what you need. 

This game suffers from what many RPG Maker games suffer from, stingy design. Instead, you should be generous to your players and give them more for their efforts.  

Congratulations on submitting a project to the game jam, that's something you could look at as a victory no matter what reviews you get. Another project to add to your portfolio. Thanks for participating.

Finished this one in a single sitting that took me about 45 minutes. Absolutely adore the graphics of this one and the theme of the game jam was very uniquely interpreted. Music was also great with an absolute banger of a track playing within the dungeon! Only had tiny gripes with the game like the anticlimactic ending sequence or graphical issues like the hero being visible during some screen transitions or the head of a NPC vanishing behind a door. But all in all a really good game. Well done!

An interesting game with nice pixelated graphics (I really like the change of view in the city) and a storytelling worthy of a real TV detective series. The music selection is also well suited to the theme.

However, I find that the game lacks a bit of "life", the NPCs are too static or wander aimlessly... like me after receiving the mission from my boss. Too bad, because the potential is there. Nevertheless, I'll keep this game under my hat to play it again later.

Note: evaluation made on the 20 minutes I give myself to test each game of the contest.