Nice idea, but could use some work on the execution.

Starting by fighting the boss is really cool, if only frustrating due to its long arrival with the alarm, along with the instant ultralaser while you're still fidgetting to get the hang of it. As others said, a bit too much health, and there is a safe spot between the lasers where you can simply wait and shoot. Given the idea, it may have been a bit better to have the boss shoot less projectiles, and less spammy with the lasers, but being more punishing with the standard shots and maybe being a bit more complex than shooting in straight horizontal lines, as to get the player to move around and really understanding the gameplay.

Only went up to wave 11 after that, due to having way too much projectiles at the same time, while also having the ship downgraded to stage 1 so it took ages to kill enemies.

The tutorial was waaaaay too long and descriptive, I had forgotten half the infos by the time I got to the end of it. Try being more concise, and use as few pages as you can.

As for the visuals, I liked the boss' design, the sprite was really nice, as are the player and the foes.
However, the purple bullets tend to be hard to see against the backgrounds, the bombs and power down are a bit lackluster as to understand what they are.
Small detail also, but the white circles, that I assume are stars are annoying. They are almost as big as bullets, which is really distracting for the eyes and makes the game way messier. Also they shouldn't go in front of the ships, that's a bit weird.


Overall, if you're still a beginner, which I assume, given that it's only your second game on itch, that's a pretty nice work and you should keep on creating games.

Also, a bit of advice for your next jam : be more careful with the scope.
Your game would have been more enjoyable if it had something like half the waves, but with more polish.
A personal line that I use is to go with a concept where I can have all the code by the halfway point of the jam at worst, so that all the remaining time can be use to add sound, vfx, bugfixes, and improving.

the game is cool i didn't pass after stage 14 too hard i'am pretty bad at it but he boos is so much fun i like the art style also . Very Nice!

i love the games like that! Its really hard to start figthin agains teh boss, but is fun too!!!

I did not like the sounds, but is better with him!

Nice game!

Great game, had a lot of fun playing through my only suggestion is a little more tell on that first boss the sound is good but with 3 different laser possibility and it being instant death I had to die about 3 times before getting a good start.

Great idea and concept, awesome tutorial and storyline, and very well made difficulty system (even though stages go backwards). The game was stressful at the start, but when I got the hang of the gameplay,  it got interesting. Only thing that I did not like is that there were many bullets that were hard to see (I am talking about small purple bullets). They were hard to dodge, sometimes even impossible, and really hard to see. But the game was really awesome! Great job!

Good game and cool idea starting at the end. I found the first boss difficult with too much HP,  but it's probably my fault because I suck when the controls require 2 hands at the keyboard.

I liked the game but I would have loved a how to play screen. The intro was superb I was really into the star wars vibes you laid down. fun game and cool concept!

The graphic for the boss looks nice. You might want to adjust the audio a little bit, as the first notes can really catch players off guard if their headphone settings aren't turned all the way down. 

Nice looking game and I liked how it fit the theme. First boss was a little difficult to begin with and the big laser was hard to dodge (more my lack of skill than anything). Keep up the good work :)

Interesting game, I couldnt see the theme as I died to the "Final Boss" and then my game crashed. 

Bug: Died to first boss, never respawned, video below. 

Also, might want to tone down your audio settings. as you can see from the video below... I was peaking the whole time. I had to turn my headset down.