The charm and style are excellent, especially in the portraits. It does what it does very well, even if what it does has been done often before. The decision to focus on polish over scale is a strong one, resulting in a solid and very enjoyable experience. 

I've been super excited for your work since you've started sharing progress on your other projects, am glad to see another one come to fruition, and eagerly looking forward to more. :D

i accidentally softlocked myself :D made it to the end without having realized there was a sword, but i needed one more bomb. pressed “New Game” after Yet Another Death and … spawned on the wrong screen, right atop some trees! but after a fresh reboot all was good. Like has been pointed out, I too experienced graphical corruption at one point, but not to a game-breaking degree. finished it off, with a sword this time!, and i’ve got to say that was a fun little mini zelda-style game

I found myself appreciating the finer details of this game more than anything. From the dusty footprint animations to the flashing routine when the player gets hurt, to the slight blue flash when the text is drawn during the dialogue screens. There is a lot to learn from this game on how to take a familiar concept and apply a new shine to it in order to make something new. 

I love the black backgrounds, it looks incredibly striking in an adventure game. The little weapon sprites are adorable and highly legible. 

It is missing the concept of the dungeon from the zelda-like, but I don't really miss it here, the lock and key challenges are dispersed evenly enough throughout the overworld, gating progress at an even enough pace to feel satisfying. 

Raven's Gate is an incredibly fine-tuned design. 

This is really good! I played through the whole thing and I'd love to see more! One minor issue, at one point some stray pixels appeared in the background tiles, as if CHR RAM got corrupted a little somehow. 

Very nice! Quite fun to play. Music is excellent. It controls smoothly. I liked the animation and artwork. I felt like I was jumping into a new NES Zelda game. I would have appreciated some kind of save or password system. Nice attention to detail, such as the character dialog boxes and the falling snowflakes. Overall, a great game!

Awesome game !! A video in your honor.