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Hey, I sent this review to you on discord, but I'm posting it here too. 

Let's talk art. Your game looks nice. I can tell what just about everything is, the style is good, I like it. The final scene had a different style which struck me a little bit as strange, but it wasn't jarring enough to ruin anything. Art was fairly good. 

Sound design. Everything sounded fairly good. This is my area of the least expertise so I'm not gonna be the best to give advice on sound ever, but I think it did it's job well. I felt nervous and unsure in the cave and I felt lost. Whether that's intended or not, only you know. But that's the feeling I had. 

Gameplay. First, I have two glitches I came across. Number one, when you enter a name at first, if it's too long, it doesn't fit right on the image you use as a background. I found that out by total accident. But it didn't fit right in the background image. Second, if you run into a wall, you get a glitchy effect where the screen shakes like crazy. 

Beyond those two glitches, the gameplay was decent. I didn't like getting hard reset all the way back to the beginning. After I died twice and got super deep into the game, I was on one life and terrified of being set back. I had a section where I had used an arrow to burn something blocking a path, then two enemies started coming towards me. I was unable to pick up my arrow, so I had to flee, in the dark, and circle blindly back around to pick it up. This was literally right at the end of the game so thankfully my blind tactical retreat worked. But I didn't like the anxious feeling and fear I had of being set back so much. Once you've explored an area once, as long as you have a good mental spacial map, it's just retracing your steps to reactivate stuff again, which isn't super fun. Experiencing it for the first time however, without retracing your steps, was.

Here's something I haven't talked about in other reviews I've done yet. Your game had a story! it was a small one and it was only implied through the art, but it was a story. I won't spoil it in case anyone wants to play it, but it made my heart warm. I like how the thing at the end looked and the art that came with it after. 

Overall, I'd say it was somewhat fun to play, but I was really anxious about having to repeat 5ish minutes of gameplay near the end. It was fun, but be careful with repeating unnecessary steps again. You did a great job and made a good game!