Well done, the game really looks great, especially the characters. I also like the interconnected puzzle rooms (the one for reflecting shots I think should lock you in, I skipped it a few times because I thought a ranged weapon was going to be found later). 

 I had the same glitch with a text box staying open too, with the dog that teaches you to dig.  And I think the player's collision was too tall, it would often get stuck on walls, and the boss' attacks would hit me way easier than what it looked like it should.  

A few small things I think would be nice would be health pick ups, though this wasnt really a problem with how easy it was to respawn, would just make the game flow better.  Also some things could probably use their own sound effects, like pushing pillars, picking up keys, etc, just to provide some nice feedback to the player.  Also maybe pillars that can move could have a slightly different visual appearance, it was kinda awkward that some could move and others couldnt.  Still great game!

small game with great potential! 

Very colorful graphics and very neat visual feedbacks! 

Nice zelda like. I had a bug while I was talking to the dog in front of the trash can, the dialog window did not disappear, I had to leave the map to make it disappear.

In any case excellent game bravo! 

This was so much fun! I played through the whole game and wanted more at the end :D The character felt great to control, and the enemies were fair. I loved the way you did your check point system. Each time you respawned at the same location, but because certain doors stayed open or because you retained certain abilities, you could just skip the parts you had already done. This was really good!

I also wonder why you have this option to skip the story? I don't think there was a lot of story to go through, and talking to most of the people in the town is completely optional. Having this option made me afraid that there would be a massive lore dump, but that was not the case at all. 

I think the puzzles were designed very well. During the combat I sometimes felt like I took undeserved damage (especially during the boss) because of the size of the hitbox. You have this diagonally top-down look, so to me it feels I should be able to walk behind the enemy sprite a little bit without problem. However, as soon as I touched the sprite I took damage. But this is just a tiny little detail though, and might also just be me :)

I ran into the same bug ass kiddolink where a dialogue box is stuck in the screen until I change rooms. However for me it happened with the dog that told me how to dig.

Finally, I also really loved the looks of the game. The dogs were really cute, and everything was also very clear gameplay wise. The animations also looked smooth and worked really well. All in all an amazing job with this game! I really enjoyed playing it :D Thanks a lot for making it and submitting it to the jam!

Wow! What a great game with lots of potential here! The pixel art is tight and charming. The soundtrack goes very well with the environments. The dungeon design... I must admit, it took me a while to figure out some things, but it was worth it. Very well elaborated.

I'd like to report two small bugs I found too.:

• The dialog with Beethoven, sometimes get stuck on screen until I change rooms. 
• The soundtrack in the boss room didn't play a second time in the beginning of the fight (YES, I DIED ONCE).

In addition, I'd like to leave some suggestions for the game:

• The protagonist could walk slightly faster, maybe. Or how about giving it the ability to run? 
• How about adding drops of health pickups from enemies?
• The range of attack of the protagonist could be bigger, or the hitboxes of the enemies a little bit smaller.
• The hitbox of the boss seems to be too big on top of the sprite, how about reducing it?
• The blue spiders could suffer from knockback as well. Otherwise, they become too dangerous of an enemy.

That's it, amazing game!

I love the pixel art in this game -the color palette and style really look great.  The polish and camera work are fantastic and the juicey vfx are excellent.  Lot of life and interest to the world in this game!   Really awesome work on this! :D

I love top-down Zelda-like games, so this was right up my street! Really nice, clean pixel art, I was a particular fan of the Mansion's aesthetic and the sprites for enemies and NPCs are fantastic. There's a lot of little details that add a really nice character to everything, like the particle effects when moving or the motion streaks on enemy projectiles.

You've really nailed the dungeon design - this felt like classic Zelda dungeons, with a really nice mix small, self contained puzzles and more large scale navigation. I really liked the hedge maze - it was a good little puzzle that felt like it really belonged within the environment.

The music fits very nicely, and I was a particular fan of the uptempo string track for the Mansion interiors.

As BerilyTeam mention below, I'd have preferred WASD for movement, although that's very much just a personal preference of mine. I think putting the controls on the game page would be helpful too

I'm also getting the crash when throwing any pot - the game provides the error code below if it's any help

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ERROR in

action number 1

of  Step Event2

for object pEntity:

Variable oPotNew.entityCollisionSave(101141, -2147483648) not set before reading it.

at gml_Object_pEntity_Step_2

gml_Object_pEntity_Step_2 (line -1)