I remember playng your game some time ago, it seems to be significantly improved.

Basic gameplay is good, enemy design is diverse and challenging, I played too little to talk about balance but at the first blush all options presented when game gives a choice seem to be reasonably interesting. The tutorial is simply excellent, paradoxically leaving me with even better impression than the game itself. Overall, I think this game is very promising and deserves wider audience.

Few nitpicks / suggestions:

• I still dislike ‘chompy’ movement style on global map, especially since it does not serve any gameplay-related purpose.
• I was overjoyed to find ‘autofire’ option in settings, but for some reason it still requires pressing ‘fire’ button once at the start of combat.
• AB_1, AB_2 and AB_2 keybindings should probably be renamed more clearly
• Default keybinding for dash seems slightly awkward, is it intended to be pressed by pinky finger? After some experiments, I ended up with remapping spacebar to dash and setting autofire on. Maybe default of Alt key would be better for dash?
• Does dash have iframes? I feel like I took damage when dashing into the enemies, but I am not 100% sure
• At the same time, zero-cooldown dash seems overpowered, maybe make it at least a second or two
• Perhaps add stronger indicator of ability readiness, maybe even as something like ‘green dot’ directly on player sprite

P.S. If you want to test my game, https://alsoknown.itch.io/way-to-crown, I would appreciate it. Unfortunately my game is a bit more complicated, so it may take little longer to test.

My first impression (take from it whatever you want):

- First enmies are to boring

- there are a few enemy designs I enjoyed (the onion was one of them) and a bee ... the boss (a dragon) suddenly is far too difficult for me

- There is something in the way your shooter works that feels unnaturally for me... (you can only shoot in on direction)... i would rather should with my mouse key and shoot in ever direction i want... that way i can shoot also enmies from afar

- i don't like the "floating objects" which randomly wander over the screen

- i would like to have some enemies moving over the field not to fast and not to slow

- many of the info boxes are explaining a bit too much for me... i would rather interact with a loot box and see what it does

- for me something is missing for the game to become really immersive ... you have the "little fights which start" when you near an enemy, but after a short time it feels a bit repetive for me... if would rather have a bit fewer fights but more engaging ones and something "else" I could do as well... i think the problem is the "break" this is between battles

- I like the graphics :)

Just thought about it a bit more... if your game would have no overworld and you would just go from fight to the next fight to the next fight and "weapon upgrades etc" in between ... think it would feel better for me... but you probably put a lot of effort in the overworld... don't know how you feel about it