I appreciate that you took a different approach, and I gotta say... Great Game! In such a short amount of time as well! This is one of the best games I've played in the jam!

I can see where you'll be going with the game, and I love that! definitely keep going!

As a fellow developer who's working on another combat driven/soulslike game, I noticed a few bugs and issues that you gotta fix when turning this game into a full release:

1) When there is an fps drop, or in low fps in general, the player moves too much when using root motion

2) When you attack for the first time or perform a combo, you gotta be able to rotate your character for the first few frames of the animation. When I attempted to attack the boss, if he dodged the first attack, it was over. I wouldn't be able to rotate my character when performing the combo, and I would miss.

A few thing that would make the game better when releasing:

Make an attack animation right after dodging.

Give the story more depth and make the people's death impactful.

Make a whole journey/questline on learning how to time travel. like the first act of the game is where you connect to the people and the goblin boss, in the second act you learn how to time travel, and in the final one you get revenge from the goblin boss 

Optimize the game a bit more.

Great Job and Good Lock on your Journey!

This was quite an exciting play. I'm impressed with what you've made. With such a big project there are quite a few issues though, the story is a little confusing. I think rather than present a story in such a way I would have spent more time cleaning up the combat. It was fun, but it was a little frustrating since the attacks and rolls felt a little unresponsive. The rolls especially were hard to time to dodge attacks. The camera also was a little jumpy with the scenery and objects around it. The goblin enemies at the end took no knockback which meant they surrounded me and I couldn't do anything. Good use of assets and music too. Also, why is the main character in his underwear? Anyway, good work. I think you've got great potential if you can clean up the combat so it feels less clunky and more satisfying.

What a masterpiece, Its hard enough and its so fun!! I have tried 80+ times to beat the boss!!

Nice level design and graphics! The fighting was buggy. I got thrown into the sky and then fell endlessly into the void :) I managed to finish the game after defeating the goblins. I liked the combat. The cutscene is good but wasn't smooth. Considering how big the map is and the time limitation of the jam, good job!

You had quite some fun with the camera I see haha :p Quite large for a game jam nice work in a week. Hope you had lots of fun creating it! :)

Getting such a big game done in a week is impressive! I ran into a few bugs but that is to be expected with the limited time frame and none of them needed a reset other than when I fell off the map ;) For such an ambitious project I am impressed by how well put together it is. Amazing work!

The boss fight is a little buggy (When the old man hit me with his sword once, I was able to fly lol). The environment and music is really good.  Overall very good job! Given the limited time, it is very polished! 

The combat feels a little stiff but the attack animations look awesome. I especially liked the cursed blade effect. The boss felt really tough since he dodges pretty much instantly when you attack, and is just relentless when attacking. Had to skip.

Overall, I'm impressed you managed to make a souls-like in only a week. Great job!

Very good level design and boss fight animations. The level is pretty to look at.

The boss fight is so hard.. I think the movement can be refined a lot and the boss fight colliders are a bit bad. Like I hit the boss but he still no damage. I got to almost the end of the boos fight but got combo-ed so hard I just gave up and quit. Will try to finish the boss fight. It was designed with so much care as I can see.

The music was so apt for the game and I feel the starting scene was cool. 

Kudos for making it fun!!!

awesome graphics, beautiful landscape. Mouse was a little to sensible to turn the camera and took a little while to load the game, but the mechanics are really good!

The game is good , i love the graphics and cinematics , also the concept is good , but there are few bugs  in the begining of the game when player spawns in his room , there is no collioder on any objects in the room , also some citizens are bigger (scaled up) than the player , this makes the player look small , The third person camera is slightly crossed , its not pointing straight but thats fine , The sword animations and sound effects are amazing , but  the sword combat is quite buggy , when i tried to kill the goblins it was very hard to hit them , it took me 3 to 4 attempts to kill the goblins , also the fight sequency was great , i didnt expect the npc to fight better , i was not able to kill that npc , so i skipped 😅 ,finally the map has no collioder to stop the player from falling down. The game is amazing .

Pretty cool. I got teleported out of the map tho lol.

Nice idea. The controls need some tuning. But good work for a game jam. The camera was too fast for me. There are some grammar errors.

Lots of content with a huge map! Kudos on the entry.. The issue where the trees would rotate when you move around can be fixed my removing the trees painted with terrain and set dressing them!

Wow this game looks like a ton of work for just 7 days! The story was funny, the controls were pretty smooth, and the graphics/animation were great. The initial cutscene of panning around the world was a great introduction. I had a little glitch where my mouse leaves the window in the Windows version and isn't locked into the center of the screen, but I bypassed it by only turning left so it stays on the correct monitor haha. That shogun didn't stand a chance... Fun game, you did a great job!

Fell of the map trying to fight the boss 10/10 would play it again :D Good job.

Liked the game, it was very fun! Sometimes there were bugs that sent me flying, but the game itself was enjoyable to play, good job!

Game is pretty cool, it's clear a lot of work was put into it. The itchio page feels a bit clunky with the game rect being too small (maybe you can fix that in the itchio page settings, without re-uploading any file). The game itself looks good but sometimes feels a little bit clunky, for instance the character doesn't look as good as the environment (i.e lacks cohesion). Overall, I must still say congrats for the achieved work!