The level of polish here is bonkers for a one week jam! Y'all did a great job overall.

Since you're developing this game beyond the jam, I'll go into more detail about the parts that didn't work for me. The pattern that I fell into during the shootouts was: leave cover, spam left-click to fire all of my shots into the nearest enemy asap, get back into cover, reload. Reloading took longer than the other steps combined, so I spent most of the game sitting behind cover and waiting. However, I don't necessarily think the reload should be shorter! I think there were a few other factors that were pushing me towards playing that way.

First of all, the enemies would usually chill and let me do this, so I didn't feel pressure to try a different strategy. I'd be interested in seeing a version where the enemies flank you, flush you out with dynamite, and/or shoot at your cover to damage it.

Second, it seemed like it took multiple shots to kill each enemy (except for the rat bullets, which seemed to be a 1-hit kill). I could be wrong about that - maybe most of my shots were actually missing - but regardless, it felt easier and more reliable to empty my whole gun, especially because I knew I could safely reload in cover. This took away from the fantasy of being an accurate, coolheaded gunslinger, and it also made the bullet effects less important because my plan was to hit each enemy with everything I've got.

This leads into the last issue I noticed, which is that there wasn't enough incentive to be strategic with the bullets in combat. In the planning phase, there was a bit of strategy (e.g. putting 'lasso' just before 'buckshot). 'But once I was in the thick of it, I didn't think it was worthwhile to wait until I could damage multiple enemies with a single 'arcing' or 'piercing' shot, or hit a fast-moving enemy with the 'ice' shot, or move in close before using 'buckshot'. It was faster and safer to shoot everything at whatever enemy I had a good angle on than to plan each shot out.

Ok, that was a lot of criticism, so I want to stress that I do like the game! I'm looking forward to seeing more of it!

For a one week jam, this is an INCREDIBLE outcome! movement felt great, and the controls felt intuitive. Art and sound were top notch,  and I was able to clear all three waves my first try (albeit by the SKIN of my teeth!) It was fun to select my bullet loadout and figure out the synergies (My favorites being lasso + buckshot or ice or anything, TBH, and the rat bullets in general.) Only thing that sticks out is that I didn't see any sort of hit flash or inidcation that i hit an enemy unless it was a bullet like ice or poison that gives the enemy a cosmetic change, and I didn't notice some of the effects of some of the bullets, even following the description on the Itch page. Fantastic stuff all around! 

The movement felt really good, and the enemy designs were very charming. We really loved the art style, and the variety of bullets definitely kept things interesting. I do wish we had some descriptions of what each bullet type does, to better strategize when we want to use them.

Out of curiosity, what was your prompt?

Great job leaning into the aesthetic. I really dug the bandit designs and how they were just distinct enough to clearly be their own enemies. It also seemed like, from wave to wave, there was a progression to the song where it got more intense the further you went? May have been my imagination, but it is one of those things that always gets me hyped up.

I wanted to echo the camera movement feedback. I too felt I had to move too close to the border to actually move it, which can also lead to the tricky instance of an enemy surprising you without any time to react. My particular note is with the bullets, outside of the rat bullet (which I thoroughly enjoyed) I couldn't tell much of a difference between the others. At some point I stopped thinking about my bullet order and just sprayed when I could, seemed more effective.

Really, I just want every bullet to be a rat bullet. Give me the rat gun.

Great work!

Wow wow wow, for a one week game jam y'all really POPPED OFF! Immediately impressed just with your menu interfaces, the tutorial, the credits, the settings, what an awesome touch. Picking a font goes a long way in the polish of a game and y'all chose a great one. Omg and the art and music are so evocative of the vibe you've chosen, you have amazed me, the synergies of your team are incredibly apparent. My few notes are that I wish the camera followed the player a little more closely-- I didn't know I could explore beyond the starting FOV because the camera didn't follow me until I was right at the edge, and (this might be intentional) some of the hitboxes for enemies and my ability to target them was a little finicky, I often found my bullets going astray from the crosshairs, or bullets I thought would hit seemed to pass through enemies undamaged. I LOVE the gameplay loop though, its like a fast-paced deck-builder which is something I haven't seen before, and y'all picked a great way to skin that idea. Fantastic job!

The visuals are spectacular! The look is so polished and blew me away when I was playing. Camera movement felt really polished as well, the incoming bullets were always visible for a perfect length of time. When shooting, the bullets seem to go a bit above the crosshair instead of towards the center, so it added a bit of difficulty when aiming. Great submission, the rat bullet was my favorite!