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The sound effects had me chuckling. I really enjoyed silly take with the writing and sound.


The controls feel a bit sluggish. Specifically, the sword is slow enough that I quickly started just dodging through enemies instead of killing them with the sword because I couldn't find ways to attack them without taking damage myself. I have a few suggestions to help combat this:

1. Allow the sword to swing while moving. Otherwise, enemies just swarm you while you swing

2. Decrease the time between sword swings - see Zelda: The Minish Cap for reference. Basic enemies in a game like this should feel like coins in Mario. Satisfying, not tedious

3. Increase knockback or reach or both for the sword. I find even if I hit an enemy I often end up taking damage from it. The sword speed increase will help, but hitting with a sword also needs to push them out of range of hurting me, or the range needs to be bigger

With all of these things combined, I'm guessing you mostly playtested this with access to the bomb ability, because once I acquired it I never even considered using the sword. The bombs are so much better. That said, the bombs could also use some work. In games, players always hate waiting, and the bomb mechanic is a double whammy. It takes time for the bomb to explode after being thrown, and then it takes an excruciating amount of time to reload after being thrown. I would consider making the bomb explode much faster and reducing the cooldown timer. Honestly, it feels like you're more interested in the bomb mechanic than the sword. You might be further ahead to drop the sword altogether and focus on making the bomb more fun

When fighting the wolf in sheep's clothing, I bombed him down to one hit left and very clearly connected with a final bomb but he didn't die (I did this twice and then died shortly afterwards both times). I can't prove it, but did you make the final hit invincible to bombs? Cuz if so that feels terrible to fight against, especially given the state of the sword as mentioned previously. If not I'm super curious what went wrong when I fought it

Oh, and one bug I found: enemies can kill you while you talk to npcs. I died talking to the sheep in the first area. Would definitely freeze all enemies while talking


All that said, I did find myself having fun while playing this game. It's a bit rough around the edges, but the writing is funny, the sound effects are silly, and the boss fight was engaging. Good work!