Strong entry, really fun game with cool theme) Very responsive controls, boss fights feels reasonably hard but honest, music is great. I don't know what to say more, it's a great small game and i love it) 

Really awesome game. I love seeing a fellow love2d submission. I read the devlog about 3d in love2d which was pretty crazy. The game had really fun boss design and I liked that I could pick between wasd and arrows. Amazing game.

Great art, fun controls, I've nothing to add, a complete well made game, Great job.

Great job. The art is great and so are the controls.

Amazing game, very well put together.

The web version was buggy for me, in terms of not expanding the screen when I toggle full-screen, but the game is very readable, so I didn't have that affect gameplay.

Charming art style with fitting music and sound effects, and super juicy with a lot of audio and visual feedback.

Controls feel on point.

Some hits I took felt unfair, but maybe that was because I was cutting it too close with dodging or too quick on the approach after the attack was finished.

I didn't really feel that the exchange mechanic affected the gameplay. Other than the range, there seems to be no difference between the staff and the sword.

All in all, had a fun time with it.

I really appreciate that this is the only game I have played so far that I have completed the whole way through. Thank you for being thoughtful in your design!

Gandalf Simulator 10/10. The gameplay reminds me of death door

My partner already commented but the game was so good I have to do it too. By far the best game I’ve played in this jam. Congratulations

Wow, in all disciplines. I had a lot of fun. The exchange mechanic is simple but so good that you really consider what you're doing. Thank you for making it possible even for noobs like me to see all the bosses.

Very nice, felt like a full game!

Hold my fucking tea, there is a piano in this game. That's a first for you I think? Oh and 3d. Pretty wacky if you ask me. Alright wall of text time.

So I was not expecting to have tears in my eyes during this jam, but here we are. I think I know where this story comes from, and it hits very close to home. Especially when that story is told by someone I've stuck around for a very long time. Fragment jam was more than 4 years ago you know. Having struggled my way through quite a few artforms at this point, I still feel terrible at all of them. To me the idea of battlescars as signs of strength is really encouraging, and I'll try to get that into my own head. 

On a completely different note, designwise: the exchange mechanic is currently close to meaningless. I sometimes just bashed my way through the melee attacks just to get to fire off three of those guaranteed hit magical missiles. Tormentor X punisher did an interesting thing; to use your gooder weapon (pew pew pew) you have to get a kill with the shotgut (kaboom, shitty range) so you were constantly switching between the weapons. Maybe something along the lines of that could have been slipped in, to make the gameplay more intentional. Honestly button mashing was the best method to deal damage, which wasn't that massively fun. 

Dodging attacks though? Hella fun. The attacks are paced just right so you have time to slip out of their reach before they get you. Overall this is kind of a slow moving game (as slow as these kinda games get), and I liked how the slower pace got me out of jumping around like a lizard to actually observing and using my frontal lobe to get out of the way of the attacks. From my perspective, this game (like most of yours) is ultimately about dodging, and the dodging was really fun.

The game has a bit of first time jank. Fullscreening the game doesn't scale it up so you have to zoom in to get it right, animations are a bit clunky, colors are a bit all over the place. Considering you wrote the bones thing for animation, and just figured out how to 3d in general, I think this is fantastic. The camera switch when you finally get a boss? Made me smile like an idiot. I don't know if you are planning on doing more 3d things, but it's definitely an interesting direction, and I'm intrigued by what you will cook up with that.

Also pico8 fonts for the win.

Awesome work!

Very funny and very stylish game! It reminds me a bit of Furi.

One addition I think would be to allow you to use A as well as X to attack, since there is such a large gap between B and X.

GG EZ

I LOVED this game! Incredible polish, especially transitions between scenes, the feeling of the text showing up, boss difficulty ramping up over time, absolutely incredible. I'm very impressed, amazing job.

Been following your work even before this game jam and I love this game entry! 

Love the game, very polished, and the story its awesome, boss fights very balanced, music suits the game. I would point out one small thing and that is that the game cannot be played in fullscreen. Overall Great job!

Flawless entry ! 
I wished dodge would cancel attack animation but that the only thing I could think of

Really loved the art and the music! Super polished and well made! Controls were a little clunky & you could avoid using your melee attacks and just spam the magic missiles by spamming attack button, which felt like it defeated the point of the mechanic, but otherwise it was great!

Nice polished game. My only critique is that the exchange element didn’t really mesh with gameplay that well until the final boss.

This game has some real heart, and looks really good on top of that. I like that it’s a combat action game that does not rely on super speedy agile movement, but still requires good reflexes and awareness by the player. The boss designs are engaging, and their phases build excellently on top of each other. You must have a lot of scars, because you are really strong.

Holy, I love it! One of the most polished games I played for this Jam, and very impressive that it's built with Love!
The game is incredibly balanced. The bosses are engaging, but gives you just enough time to react to their attacks.

I managed to get through the game by just constantly spamming the attacks and let the magic missiles auto target the boss. It feels a little bit game breaking since I'm sort of bypassing melee attacks lol.  It still was an amazingly fun experience!