The art and UI are really polished and the mechanics and game as a whole feels extremely finished. The camera felt really jarring to me though, i felt it could only move in one direction at a time and wouldnt really go where i wanted it. Other than that this game is really well made and has a lot of juice!

This one is so cool! I wouldn't mind seeing a more fleshed out release, it's rad.

I had a lot of fun with the slower shots. I need to play this again still after Niko informed me of all the mechanics that I didn't get to figure out. Also, I ran into a bit of a glitch while picking an upgrade.

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Your pixel art is really next level beautiful. Fantastic work.

The game mechanics were interesting, but I felt the enemies had too much health early on so it was difficult to get to enjoy the later parts of the game. Deploying spirits as turrets also seemed to be less powerful than I would’ve hoped as the died pretty easily so I was mainly fighting with my water spray, kiting the slimes behind me/around corners so they would run into my spray.

I was able to get to the horned monster guy, but ran out of water gun because I had spent it all on the upgrade previously. Not sure what I was supposed to do to kill him after I ran out of ammo so I ended up dying :(

Overall, I think the game has a very fun premise, especially with the idea of capturing spirits to redeploy as turrets that help, but also make it higher difficulty due to more bullets to dodge. Maybe some slight tweaks to health/damage, and maybe making your water gun not consume your currency would make a more gentle start to the game so players can progress further/upgrade more later.

I had some frustration with the mechanics, but found the art pretty awesome though maybe the way the player character kinda shakes is confusing.

I also had the nearly constant camera movement jittering, unfortunately. I know when i was spamming spacebar to try to skip the very very long intro it was acting as if I had pressed tab? Like getting this white outline around it:

I wonder if there’s something going on with that that causes jittering to happen for some people? Like it thinks it’s not quite full screen but is. Just a thought, could be waayyyy off base.

The mechanics didn’t ever quite make sense to me around capturing enemies…. in the upper left there’s like a 0/1 square gem thing, is it that you can only capture one enemy? the other is the amount of money you have basically? Figuring out how to actually throw the blue thing to capture an enemy was really confusing and I’m still not sure how it works, it certainly isn’t just hold space until it charges up or shoots out. Part of the confusion was that the enemies turn bluish when they’re low on health, so I thought that was the moment as the page said to do it when they “turn blue.”

And then it was confusing how to place them… is there a time you have to wait? do you click on them in the bottom left? To go through all that and die to friendly fire felt uh not the best lol. But super fair for the bullet hell jam’s theme, really like the idea in theory to count as Consequences. The other thing that didn’t feel great was getting to upgrades and then not being able to afford one of the two options which seemed kind of needless.

I know there’s a lot of good ideas and a good game in here, and something to be proud of, so I hope this doesn’t come across as discouraging. Just, I love games like these and always want to see them succeed the best they can :)

Really cool concept, especially the water gun! All of the animations are really nice and smooth. I liked how the music lessened/increased in intensity before and during fights. All of the UI elements were super impressive, and so was the entire itch page. 

But it was really hard to tell what was killing me a lot of the time because the water would mask bullets, and the game seemed to break when I was trying to select an upgrade. Still a pretty incredible effort, and the fact that you made this solo is outrageous. Well done!

Great work on the graphics! I can definitely see the gungeon inspiration. 

Graphics are gorgeous. Gameplay is fun but I feel like there should not be friendly fire as it makes the actual hook of the game (capturing things) more punishing it should be. Also selecting your creature is needlessly clunky, why not use number keys or something when you deploy your minions?

Regardless great job! With some tuning the game could be something awesome!

This game is very beautiful: that was the first thing that really grabbed me! I think the idea itself is very interesting, but there being no tutorial in the game made it difficult to understand until I realized there was a controls section in the description. Additionally, I experienced a strange camera jitter effect that made the game really nauseating to play. I'm not sure if that's a part of the game or just a thing on my end. Still, very cool game and it was fun to play!

this loooks impressively gorgeous, its like enter the gungeon acqua mod

Very good combination of Bullet Hell and Aqua! Very inspirational to create something with multiple restrictions.

I really liked the idea, the art was very beautiful, I missed only the sound effect, but it was amazing. If I had more time, I believe it will be a great game in the future.

This game looks absolutely beautiful and plays really well with great animations (loved the cursor spinning). Learned about the crystal thing only after reading the other comment here though, agreed that it would need a tutorial.  Congratulations !!

The gameplay seems to be pretty polished and i like the bloom, it really stands out in the dark. Solid gameplay and nice game :D

I love the atmosphere and music. I struggle to understand what's going on in game though. I feel like I'm missing something.