Super cool game! I did enjoy my time with this quite a bit.
Things I liked:
- The art is SPECTACULAR! It's super authentic to the time-period and looks amazing. Really great job with this!
- The shooting feels fun and fluid.
- I like how the levels are set up. The goals are clear and you're naturally led in the right direction by the way you set everything up.
- The map screen with crossed-out objectives is a lovely little detail and is very authentic to the era.
- The gameplay in general is pretty solid. So good work with that.
Improvements:
- Ngl, dude, the thumbnail for this game REALLY lets it down. If you hadn't commented on our game and I only saw your game on the submission page, I probably would've never clicked on it. It looks unimpressive and low-effort. Which is a shame because you have such a huge variety of great art used in-game!
- Giant text walls aren't great for telling a story. If you continute this game after the jam I would really like to see some cutscenes!
- The final boss was a tanky mf. I read in your comments that there is a secret way to beat him explained in a note before the fight, but you shouldn't expect every player to read the notes because most of them probably won't. I fought him before I saw your comments on this page. I pretty much just sat behind him, stabbing him once, waiting til he got up, then stabbing him again. This took forever and I ended up quitting before I killed him unfortunately.
- The first level isn't super interesting. You can pretty much just walk from start to finish without even the slight chance of being spotted.
- The stealth is cool, but the AI could use improvements. Sometimes I felt like I should've been spotted, but I wasn't.
- The menu design doesn't look super professional.
Overall, I think you did an excellent job with this game! It's super impressive that you made this in only 2 weeks. It's very polished for what it is. But please please please take my advice and make a new thumbnail before the end of the Jam. I think you're not getting nearly as much attention as you should be getting because of it.
Good luck! This does seem like a contender to win.