The presentation is the stronggest part of the game, but the gameplay feels lacking polish. As some players have mentioned, the melee was an extremely powerful weapon, and all the other weapons feel way too weak to use.

All I did was run up to each boss and smack them with the melee and breezed through all the bosses.

Music and art is top-tier but I find myself occasionally confused which part of the map is a wall, and which part is a floor sometimes.

This is a very, very good looking game. The animations of the player and the bosses were great, and I also loved the boss arena with the gears. Additionally, that fire attack that was alike a laser beam was satisfying to use and I really liked how one of the bosses had multiple segments to attack.

Some feedback that I would give is that the melee is just too good of a weapon. At first I was afraid to use the melee, but when I used it, I realized that the bosses would be gone in like 10 seconds or less. Additionally, I would say more SFX or clear SFX would massively improve this game, because it would give tons of good player feedback.

In any case, you guys did a great job on the game, and it’s clear how hard you guys worked on this!

This game definitely has my favorite visuals, the monochromatic scenes just have something so charming about them, and the characters/bosses have really cool animations, especially the melee for the player, it just feels so satisfying. The story was also pretty nice too, and the music fit incredibly well. My only criticisms is that I can't really tell what I can walk on and what I can't , I'll be chasing the boss (because I really like the melee) and suddenly hit a wall and have to find my way around it. 

Also, I don't blame you because it's somewhat uncommon, but there is a glitch for higher screen ratios where the people who speak never disappear, it doesn't show up during gameplay, but when I return to dialogue I can tell there are about 5 people layered on top of each other.

Overall, this game has a lot of charm and I really like it, good job!

Great game!

Absolutely everything is at a good level. Graphics, soundtracks, bosses. This is a great job within the jam!

The only downside I would like to highlight is that the bosses are too easy (if that’s what you wanted to do), and the player himself has too much HP, which is why I could just stand and hit sometimes, and the bosses rarely went beyond the limits, but that didn’t stop me from going through them all and enjoying the game!

During the game itself, there was a slight lack of some kind of visual accompaniment during the dash, as well as the sounds of the attack itself, because of course it’s rare, but I didn’t understand whether the boss was attacking or not.

All in all, this is a very good game, well done!

Just making sure... is the Creator the final boss? I reached a room with a computer without any way to progress further (unless I missed sth)

This is obviously a high effort submission; the musics are rad, and the bosses are all so unique. Very awesome submission!

Some critiques however:

• May want to put the list of controls somewhere in game. Although I knew for sure I should be able to use the other three attacks at the bottom right, in the end I didn't figure it out until after I defeated the Creator.
• Well the fact that it is so easy to defeat all of the bosses with just the basic attacks say something about the balance... although I do prefer easier games :3
• The third boss Marionette was so, so laggy! D:

I really like the art and music and the weapon mechanic. Nice fun game

The art is absolutely amazing—really, just super, super impressive. The steampunk theme and narrative are also incredibly well done. That’s just perfect work right there.

The music is really nice, though it’s a bit of a shame that the SFX isn’t on the same level, as it slightly breaks the immersion. The bosses seem very cool, but I did encounter one big issue: the balancing. Spamming the basic attack seems to be by far the most effective way to defeat them without it taking too long, while other attacks and spells feel much harder to use.

Congratulations—this is great work!

This game is amazing!!! I loved all of it, the bosses, the visuals, the music. The lore of this game is very interesting and makes me want to read all of it, the bosses have incredible design, this is truly wonderful! I made it through the end and it was very fun.

Now with the downsides.

As the other comments say, the bosses are too easy. I literally just spammed one attack to beat all the bosses. Also the player has a lot of health which makes the attack spamming way easier. 

The attacks I think are a bit unbalanced, it was easy for me to beat all of the bosses with just one attack available and without needing the other attacks.

In the 3rd boss fight, the game becomes very lagged when the marionette makes some attacks.

The music is way louder than the sfx so you can't hear much of it.

Apart from that, the game is very good, even though the bosses were easy that's better than very difficult bosses because I could make it to end. This game truly has potential and I enjoyed all of it. This is so far my top choice for this jam.