Hey! Definitely a different approach to Dungeon Crawlers than I would have expected :)

What did I like:

• The park scene was nicely arranged and the foggy clouds fitted the experience to be there at night. I liked the different assets and the lighting by the street lamps too. Well done!
• The ping leading to the 4 Yokais was also a nice guiding element. This is one example of guidance through the level. The second one are the visible paths. I like features like this because they tend to give me as a player a feeling of "I know where I am and I know the rules of this environment". Finding the other 3 was therefore much easier.
• The match 3 part had a different visual style but it still looked nice. With the Yokai at the left side it looked really nice and inspiring. A match 3 where you fight and collect monsters maybe? Or some kind of RPG to level up by doin match 3? 

What can be improved:

• The music in the park is super nice, but it reminds me more of some film noir street music and it contrasts the scenery. By watching the park scene without music I would expect something thrilling and dark that underlines the danger of the Yokais and gives more meaning to the task of pacifying them.
• The connection between the match 3 and the park scene is setup by the bits of story only. In the game they feel a bit like 2 completely different and unrelated games. There is the counter that sais how many Yokais you have defeated and the match 3 starts once you enter the particles in the scene but somehow that still does not feel connected. Maybe a bit of the park scene style can be taken over into the game itself or vice versa? On the other hand I would have really loved it to move through the park using match 3 :). Imagine 4 colors and every time you match the color you move into the direction of the color ^^. So you cannot move freely. Something like this would have connected the both worlds a bit better. Another thought: Maybe the presence of a Yokai could have altered the park to something more strange, and once defeated the park would have been restored. That would have added another level of meaning to the task and gives the player a visual reward.
• Compared to all other entries, the movement in the park felt a bit less like dungeon crawling and more like a standard 3D movement. The grid could have been a bit bigger for my taste to have more defined steps since sometimes it felt like I would fall of a bridge or walk right on the edge.

All in all a nice approach, that could use some tweaks here and there. It definitely inspired me and my imagination :)

https://twitter.com/Gr4uk3n/status/1515445371497074693

Decent graphics and a decent implementation of match-3 which was interesting to see in this context. If executed a little bit better and with more polish I think it could be a really fun game. I do however feel that the world was too empty and little to do and movement was slow and some collision detections didn't work. Biggest issue for me is that movement feels like it's based on half-steps which is a rule violation. 

I'm simply not a big fan of match-3 but the increased sound frequency as you approach a yokai is a good idea, the gfx are alright even if combat and non-combat ones don't match that well and the game is definitely what it wants to be.

I loved the concept and the artwork is great, especially the art for the match-3 game. Maybe it's my laptop but, the match-3 game seemed to ignore some of my drags. I would have loved to try a desktop version to see if it ran better.

YOKAAIIIIIII that's what I found myself saying a lot as I played this, although I don't know what it means.

Really interesting setting for a dungeon crawler! The radar system was neat and I really liked how the smoke effects moved out of the way as you walk into them.

I wished the graphics of the two parts of the game were more in sync, but otherwise I thought the game was quite nice.

I don't find the exploration that meaningful. You have have to wonder around and find the battles. There is nothing you can get while wondering around to make the battles easier. It doesn't matter if I find the battles quickly or not.

The graphics from the battle mode seem brighter than the exploration mode. Having a 3D model of the yokai in the world would have made the two modes feel more connected.

I like the background sounds. It works well with the visuals.

Hmm...your game has some nice ideas, but it has some problems.

First, I think the yokai attack you based on a timer, right? That means the best strategy is simply connecting as many 3s as possible instead of looking for the best possible move

Secondly, I think your game doesn't qualify as a dungeon crawler as stated by the jam rules?

• The game must have step movement on a grid. Smooth transition between grid squares is allowed. Half-steps or dividing the square into smaller squares is not accepted.

Maybe ask  zooperdan what he thinks about this. 

very pretty - a bit slow though