It's an interesting game, but needs a lot of QoL features.

Clouds are horrible, they obstruct the bullets in the upper half of the screen. Had to manually erase them from the sprite so that it would be a bit more playable.

It's an interesting concept, but too hard, even on "easy" difficulty. Got a bit easier without the clouds - managed to reach the boss semi-consistently. Not knowing what your hitbox is extremely uncomfortable for this kind of game, especially when your sprite is giant because of the horse. Controlling the shooting angle works, but is very situational. When the game starts - the crossbow is aimed somewhere where it can't shoot, so I had to angle it. 

Sword man is not usable in my experience due to not knowing the hitbox.

But the character sprites are cute.

I can see myself having fun playing it at some point, but right now it's a bit too rough.

There's some interesting potential in restricting the player's movement like this to add something meaningful to the game in return. There needs to be more, though. Aiming is one thing, but as-is, it is way too situational. Most angles go straight off-screen from most positions. 

The control scheme is awkward. Why can't I aim by holding down a key and then pressing the direction I want? Using up and down is counter-intuitive enough on its own, but the aiming uses some sort of gradual, awkward truncated scrolling for holding the keys instead of simple digital inputs on key press. 

Why is the sword a toggle rather than a hold or having its own button? These state-dependent selection commands are very awkward, as I have to look to my character to know its current state. The sword felt pretty useless, too.

Why is there only one movement speed, for that matter? Movement is already limited, so by forcing me to move quickly, a lot of potential depth in that space is already lost. I can barely position my character correctly to take down the tiny enemies by lightly tapping the arrow keys.

The low base shooting rate at the start is annoying. Power-ups are a bit too high-impact for my liking.

I tried playing on hard first. I found the movement too fast for me to consistently dodge the waves on the first boss pattern, so I tried medium and had the same issue. Then I went to easy and got through the rest of the game that way. The patterns are nice, but only the swinging laser one feels like it's getting any use out of the game's 1D movement. That could probably use some telegraphing though.

I couldn't shoot at all at first.

So I had to press down and somehow rotate my angle.

Controls feel weird in a game like this.

Then there's how I basically have one life and the first stage already having too much stuff going on.

Is the physics framerate uncapped? I couldn't really play it cause the game moved really fucking fast for me and I'd die instantly lol

It's not possible to go back to the main menu from the game over screen

Tried running it on linux (Steam deck), got "Error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Got an error message when I tried to start this. "You cannot run this application on your computer." Its tagged as windows and linux, maybe the version only works for linux?