Nice game rated it, pls check out my game also if you don't mind - https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-7/rate/1418152

Yo, I tried to play it, and I can't. I am on a mac. the game looks really cool from the screenshots. though. :)

wow love the boss ability design. it is quite challenging to me as i don't usually play this type of game. but i did play serval times to finish it. it really fun. great work

Although the game has some glaring design issues, like how it isn't easy to competently take advantage of the fake attacks, or how the movement is a bit stiff, I had a lot of fun playing and definitely see you improving to make more games in the future!

Loved the game, I'm surprised how well the art style is for such little time!

As was mentioned many times before - I don't think it fits the theme.
On the other hand - it's great game. :) Although it'd be cool if you could move while attacking, many times I just stood there, spamming click and wanted to move - and nothing happened :D 

The boss fight is amazing and I really love the art style! A small suggestion being to improve the boss's logic since we can walk up to the enemy and just spam.

I'm amazed you did this in a week, it looks so good!

Like others said, it doesn't really fit the theme as it is now and it would be nice having some smaller fights before the boss fight. But all that being said it's still fun and challenging which are the most important parts. The only slight complain is that sometimes the melee attack looks like it should hit, but it doesn't.

The graphics are great! It's extremely fun and challenging. Really nicely done!

You caught my attention with soulslike combat. Shame its only 1 fight though, I thought the first fight would be like a tutorial or something like how dark souls would throw you into the deep end of the pool to force you to learn its mechanics or never be able to progress.

Nevertheless, based on the 1 fight, i have quite a few pointers. Honestly, getting these kinds of games to feel right is really hard to do, especially when it comes to melee combat. These pointers will be based on a soulslike style of combat rather than the typical hack and slash combat.

• Melee feels really off when you are stuck in place. There should be a forward momentum when you attack while moving in a direction. Instead you instantly lose all momentum when you perform a melee attack. Being able to spam dashes is fine (?) depending on the type of game you want it to be. It makes the fight a lot easier since you can just ignore most mechanics with i-frames, and since theres no stamina system, its something you can just do non stop without any repercussion. You dont lose out on damage if you dash too often or you dont get punished for mistiming a dash since theres no recovery time for the dash.
• The ranged attacks are well implemented. Limiting them with a mana system that you need to regain through melee attacks is a good factor, though this makes it less of a soulslike and more of a pew pew dualstick shooter game.
• Animations for everything are too fast. The boss teleports around instantly rather than walking towards you, meaning theres no sense of spacing. It spam attacks non stop and cast attacks with barely any windup animation, so it really favours the safe ranged option over melee since you actually have some room to react against projectile-based attacks. Though this leads to my next point:
• The fight doesnt feel punishing. The boss' attacks do little damage to compensate for its spammable attacks, and you dont feel like you "played wrong" when you get hit, since you can basically tank the hit and continue whaling onto the boss. I would much rather enjoy if animations had windup duration where you could react to while being more punishing if you actually get hit. This plus the above pointer leads to a very button-mashy combat system. Instead of closely studying attack patterns and finding openings for when to play offensively or defensively, its a damage race to see whose health bar drops faster.

And like what others have said, the fight has no relation to the theme. Still though, I enjoyed my time with the game and its a really solid attempt at making a boss fight. You guys should be proud of what you have accomplished. The soulslike genre in general isnt really friendly to the general audience anyways. Even if you execute it right, some will feel that the system is still bad and too punishing while others will get extreme dopamine kicks from overcoming a great challenge. Anyways i prepurchased elden ring and i still dont have any free time to play it ahhhhhhhh okthxbi

Very fun, and very challenging! I liked how the camera worked and I also thought the graphics were great.

So epic, it is hard, but not impossible. I love the graphics and the effects.

fun gameplay, good graphics. Not sure how it fits the theme tho

really cool game i liked the idea of it

the gameplay was fun too

great job man

Pretty good~! Had fun trying to take down the boss. However a bit unsure about the theme. But I guess it works.

Audio: really nice, fits the game nicely.

Art: the menu screen made me grabbed the controller immediately because it was really good and also it has Gamepad support lul. As for the game, looks pretty solid, would have loved to play other games with hack n slash mechanics with this type of art style. Love it!

Download via itch-app didn't work. I guess because the game is in a sub folder... but normal download and play works. I beat Dark Souls, so was also eager to beat this dude, too... Made it in 2nd approach, was expecting some sort of firework or so. :) Challenging and the core battle mechanics feel nice.

Good game, not sure about the theme but nonetheless I enjoyed it. I think it's too fast paced to realise if it fits the theme without you telling me :D

Yeah really good  ;)

Very fun game, I really enjoyed playing it. good work

Hella sick, even if I couldn't finish with my bossfighting skills xd