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The combat system is great, I especially liked the plunging attack, it felt really good to bounce off of enemies.
The feedback (both white flash and audio) for hitting enemies  and animations felt good and made the combat feel really fun.

I also enjoyed the idea of using blood both as health, as a reward for killing, and as the main story progression method.
I think however that it just increasing the numbers would really help (multiply both damage taken from enemies and blood gained). Since it felt a bit slow to start with 100 health and then fight enemies for a few more minutes for 50 more.

I agree that the story needs to be fleshed out a little more, it sounds interesting and I was missing some motivation for playing, especially since it was always the same enemies and they were fairly simple (and the bats stopped attacking me at some point).

The visual style is really cool and I like how it was very minimalistic but polished and everything fit together really well.

Looking forward to seeing more in case you end up updating this!

I will try some balancing over the initial blood as you suggest but maybe I'll expand on it by changing the arena formula into a level structure without infinite spawning enemies.

I went for a strange approach for spawning harder enemies by tying it to the blood counter I should have gone for a timer instead as probably it's hard to see all the enemies(5 enemy types as of the end of the jam) if one keep pouring blood to the sword.

I will probably because for how unfinished it is I liked how the combat and the look came in the end!

Thanks for your in depth thoughts on the game! :)

Oh I did not know there were 5 enemies and that they were tied to the blood.
I stopped after around 150 blood since I lost(or the game stopped for some reason but I'm not sure) and I didn't know there was something new if I kept going.

So I agree either a timer/a level format or just explaining this to the player can help a lot.

It's great that you are continuing with this since the base is really good and I think you can build a lot on top of this.
I will definitely play future versions :)