Thou hast really charming graphics in this game and some cool mechanics! It's very well done. I came across this game in my quest to play every game that has 'quest' in the name and luckily yours does because this was a good experience for me. I really like this art style and I would be keen to see how you could develop from here given more time. My only criticism is that firing the arrows was a bit challenging in terms of getting the direction right - the enemies themselves were not too hard or aggressive but sometimes it took me a while to actually hit them! Great entry.   

Great game, glad I got to play this one :) 

Don't worry about the bugs, it's a gamejam game so its bound to be rough around the edges. What is here already is super fun and engaging, and I look forward to playing a post-jam version as well if you ever decide to! 

Thou hast done a good job! 

Such a cool game! The music really sets a nice mood. After getting the fire and water orbs, I got stuck trying to go around a group of barrels in the next room.

Nice game, I really liked the idea and its realisation, the character moves a bit slow compared to the size of the rooms and the combat seemed a bit easy and repetitive. Otherwise great game!

Nice game! I really enjoyed the combat and art style, feels like playing a classic flash game. One small complaint is that the control scheme for keyboard feels a little clunky to use, at least for me. Other than that though it was a great experience!

Fun game that reminds me of old flash games, The music and art was good and I liked the variety of weapons to use. Although the choice of keys on the keyboards could be adjusted a bit and also the player movement was quite slow. Overall a good game.

A charming and enjoyable experience despite the boss room bug.
It is great game just made by one person.

This is a quite a complete adventure game with lot of well implemented mechanics. The crossbow animation is quite satisfying and I liked the different objects.

An improvement that wouldn't be too costly to implement and that would really increase the appeal of the game would be to improve the background (just a darker one could do) and find a good animated model for the character. These are two elements that are constantly on screen so improving them would have a lot of impact on the appearance of the game.

That said, for a game made by just one person in only a month, it's great, you can be proud of yourself!

I ran into that bug you mentioned and got locked in the room the first time I played.

I played it again but with a controller this time and noticed you can't progress dialogue with just the controller (pressed all the buttons), made it to the boss room, defeated the boss and the chest spawned this time and I got the bomb ability but all the coins that I hadn't collected disappeared in there and then the door closed and locked me in there. Tried to bomb my way out but couldn't so I guess it bugged.

So I started it for a third time with all this in mind and managed to get all the coins and the bomb ability, and move to the next level, was in the middle of defeating the boss there and got stuck between barrels and the wall, tried to use a bomb to get unstuck but died instantly.

Started it for the fourth time, coins and collected orbs somehow hadn't reset and I had the sword already, so getting to 99 coins was pretty easy, and since it hadn't reset my bomb ability either I could basically speedrun by not fighting the second boss and just bombing my way in to the other places, managed to finish in the end with 99 coins (since they hadn't reset)

I was a bit confused as to why when aiming the bow the aiming gets locked, and the movement speed could have been a bit faster or an option to sprint would have been good, but other than that there's a solid game here but needs more polish which is understandable since this is a game jam game (mine also needs more polish) 

Simple and a good bit of fun. Gorgeous art! Level design felt a bit too big for it's own good, making backtracking a bit of a chore. Still had a good time tho. Good job!

Really a good video game : congratulations

The theme of the game jam is respected!

I really enjoyed this game, it made me want to explore even more! The bow animation was really cool and felt great to use! There are just a few quality-of-life improvements I’d suggest. I’m often too lazy to read text properly, so having a skip option would be a nice addition. It also felt a bit odd that you could move around but couldn’t interact while text was on screen. Displaying the enemy’s HP would be a helpful addition as well. Personally, I’d prefer if interaction was mapped to the E key and shooting to the spacebar. These are all very small things, so amazing work overall!

I really like the game and the visual style of the map. The HUD is very tiny on my screen, but ok. The movement speed is a bit slow, but I nevertheless finished the game. Well done.

I really liked the visual style and the level designs, and the shoot mechanic was nice. I disliked (a lot) that the text is modal - i.e. it blocks gameplay - but pretends to be non-modal. So - very often - you walk up to something, interact with it, nothing happens, so you walk away. And then ten seconds LATER the dialog finishes playing and now the item is 'magically' usable -- but there's no reason to go back to the ittem because as a player you already 'known' it doesn't do anything.

This is a problem even without the slow walking speed (Which makes it worse every time you have to walk back to something that was invisibly disabled by the dialog).

If you're going to have gameplay-disabling dialog, it should really cover the center of the screen and stop the player from doing other things :)

(I only stopped playing because of the slow walking speed -- take one wrong turn, and it punshies you badly. I was shooting at an enemy forever and nothing happened. No indication if I was damaging it or not - I suspected I needed a different waepon, but the thought of walking slowly all the way around the level in case I found another weapon -- or to re-interact with every object - was too much)

Interesting game. Gameplay is engaging, but as already mentioned in the comments, I think the movement should be faster or the levels smaller. The way it is now there are big chunks of gameplay where nothing really happens. Also the aiming with the bow was very hard on keyboard. Sadly I didn't finish the game, because i got stuck in the room where I was supposed to get the bomb. When defeating the enemy here everything in the room disappeared and I couldn't get out.
Nevertheless I like the idea behind this game. Great job!

I like it. The hand-drawn paper art style is great. The audio is chill. Navigation, exploration, and environmental traps are good! The weapons and how you get them as you progress are nice.

One suggestion: add some signal for the bomb ticking or a visual notice for the player. I got killed because, when I first placed the bomb, I didn’t know if I needed to interact with it to start defusing.

Really fun chill game. The art style reminds of playing through a DnD map and the controls and sense of exploration reminded me of a Zelda style game. I also admire anyone who sets up controller controls. Overall the best advice I ever heard when making a game is make everything twice as fast and see how it plays. This game would have been better if a bit faster. The music is nice and chill. The sound effects were lovely but. I would have liked a little meatier hit sounds/trap sounds. Clever use of enemies but they would have been fun with a little more movement. I enjoyed your sense of puzzle design and I think you've got some real skill there, the light puzzles, bomb puzzles and sequence puzzles were all a lot of fun. I was frustrated that I somehow missed two coins (I think it might have been some weird sense of spawning in the water boss room). Overall though, I really dug this game, it has a strong vibe.

I really appreciated the hand drawn graph-paper aesthetic. Nice little game!