Those prison guards are not very good at their job, leaving a prisoner with a gun hahaha.
Cool game ! Those cutscene were great, nice setup, the art was cool. If I can suggest a couple of things:
- F to attack was a bit weird, you move with WASD, so with your left hand, so you would expect to press F with your left hand too, but it means you have to stop pressing D, meaning you can't move at the same time, so I had to use my right hand to press F which was a bit awkward, I'd suggest using an input more on the right of the keyboard, to be used with the right hand, maybe Enter, Right CTRL or any letter on the right of the keyboard.
- The art was great, but the background was a bit noisy and distracting, I think the main reason is there is just too much contrast on the background bringing attention to it over the gameplay, I'd say in good part because there are black outlines on the background while there is none on the gameplay. Easy rule of thumb is to use outlines only on physically interactable things, so the ground, the characters etc, and if you don't do that (which makes sense your characters are a bit too low rez for outlines) you shouldn't have outlines in the background at all, so the eye is not distracted by non-gameplay things like the background, specially those trees and that brick wall.
- The parallax was great but there was something weird with the ground, the street was kind of moving, like it was part of the parallax. Generally the point of parallax is to give the illusion of depth in a 2D game, so you would normally leave the gameplay layer not moving at all, since the character is at that depth. It's a bit uncanny, you should check that out.
- The guard hurt voice over was playing a lot during the game, so the player have to hear it again and again, so I'd suggest having some variations on that VO and if you can (I don't know what engine you use) have some random pitch variation to help with it not being too repetitive.
- The gunner is really over powered compared to the boxer, I got my ass handed to me very quickly with the boxer then with the gunner it was so easy that I just finish the game without a sweat and didn't even get to play the guitarist (which is a shame, he looked cool)
Hey sorry for the wall of text, but you guys seemed open to feedback and since you plan to release the game on android after, I though it might help. The game is cool, the mood, the cutscenes, those characters, those dumb cops haha
Nice game, I enjoyed it :D