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!

Awesome game. The art is amazing and the gameplay feels great. I really appreciated the music and how it was synced to certain story beats. Camera work was on point too. I got back up one time.

I don’t know how I feel about the magic. On the first boss I though it to be a cool ebb-and-flow of combat, where you attack on the in-between stages and cast when they’re attacking. By the last boss the gameplay loop basically just became melee ASAP hitting nothing so I could cast my spells again. I don’t know if this is really a bad thing because it was fun but it essentially just sort of became a reload-and-survive game at that point.

What an amazing entry!! The isometric art style, the emotional music, and the well-designed bosses are really what makes this game shine. I especially like how in the first boss, the background turns black for one attack. The story is also extremely captivating, and seems like a sequel to TRYH4RD (maybe?). While on the topic of story, the dialogue system was also executed perfectly with flavor text and screen shake to spice up the conversations.

One small nitpick I have however is how you could’ve utilized the theme more. Right now, I feel like the winning strategy is to just spam the attack button so that the homing magic bullets just hit the boss without you ever even needing to get close to it. Maybe instead of exchanging weapons every 3 times you press the button, it could be every 3 times you hit the boss with that weapon?

All in all, amazing work and can’t wait to see what you make next time! (I loved TRYH4RD btw)

Awesome game! The simple art style and the sound design were spot on. I think making the magic attacks homing was a really smart design choice to keep the fight moving and not too hard. The story parts between the fighting were also really well done! :)

The personality of each boss can be felt through each fight, engaging with them feels like a conversation and really leaves a great impression in a short amount of time. The game handled really smoothly and felt like a successfully crafted experience. The music is AMAZING and really enhances the impact of the project to that next level that gets you thinking abstractly while you're experiencing everything. 

This game is so polished omg. I love it! Visuals is also simple but really well-done.

Great job! It's engaging to the end, and the presentation is awesome.

Love it. 4.5/5 I still have lots of games to look at. Defiantly worth a play a through

Headmaster made me cry. In a good way. S tier story!

Amazing! Especially loved the final fight!

Wow really well done! 

Wow, truly blown away by this. The visual design, varied bosses, solid controls, and great move telegraphing all come together to make some great gameplay. And the excellent score and affecting story add a nice level of polish. My only feedback is that the exchange mechanic is a little too subtle. It actually took me a few fights before I noticed that the sword and magic attacks were melee vs range, since I was always waiting to get in close and then spam attack. But overall, this is an incredible experience!

Was hoping you'd take part lol. Your boss designs never dissappoint

Love the visual design overall. Still manages to be beautifully simple and readable like your other games. Especially considering that this was your first time doing 3D

AND THAT MUSIC  (  OH GAWD THE MUSIC  ).  Any chance you could make the ost downloadable lol ? 

The telegraphs for every boss's attacks were superb. They each had some great personality and flair in both their attacks and in the overall story.

However, I have some issues with how the player character controls and works

I think his movement speed is a little too slow in general. So much so that he felt clunky sometimes.

And I'm not really a fan of how normal sword swipes count towards reducing the sword swipe count. I feel like it would have been better to reduce the sword swipe count on actually hitting a boss. 

Because in the game's current state, you can mostly just keep swiping until you get the wand, and then from there you can keep spamming magic since they're effectively homing missiles ( which is necessary considering the controls so no issue with that lol )

As a result, the game felt a little too easy imo. That said, I guess this setup allows you to play the way you want, but I feel like it could have been made more tighter since it's a little easy to cheese

Never the less, this game was still fun AF. Great entry. After reading that post-mortem I have to ask though, is the game's title what it is because you were left with battle scars ? lol