Great game! Excellent art, very clean linework! I'm curious to know why you changed off of pixel art for this one, but you didn't miss a beat. I really loved when the soundtrack started distorting. The story was great, I was glad to finally get an insight into what Nexus HQ is doing. Gameplay wise I certainly did feel encouraged to somewhat change my strategy with the different level designs and hazards, which was satisfying to do. Although, it doesn't feel like it really incorporated the card aspect, since it's basically bringing a particular loadout. Plus I'm pretty sure any level could have been overcome with spamming many many cheap towers. Most of the late game hazards disincentivized setting up just a few strong towers, which makes the tower upgrade cards and magical girls feel less strong, which is a shame because those are cool. The polish and content level you put into your games never ceases to amaze me . Great work!

Very well done all around. Already talked to you directly that it reminds me of PvZ, a game that I really liked ^^ Overpowering everything with thousands of energy feels fun. The art and the music are really nice as well. And also an impressive amount of effort went into the CGs and backgrounds.

Small suggestions from me:

• The bullets could feel a bit more impactful and a cause a more detailed hit effect. 
• When placing a turret an on-field preview for the attack range / pattern would be helpful. 
• Numeric 1-9 (0) Hotkey for directly placing a turret from the top list

An excellent game all around and very well put together! There are a lot of things done right with this game, from the opening hub, to the magical girl towers all the way to the ending. Graphics, sounds, all of them amazing. The info panel on the top-right when anything is hovered is very helpful and it’s all these little things that add up to form a pleasant game experience. I thought the levels are varied enough and presented different types of challenges, enough to spice up the gameplay and offset the card effects and mechanics which I thought were too simplistic (I was expecting more strategy). I don’t think the gameplay mashup is all that unique, but it is very polished and feels good to play. The amount of care that went into the game deserves a lot of praise.

A minor issue is that the placement of towers can be improved, have some leeway so the player doesn’t need to be super precise. Other than that, there is only one critique that I have, which is the deckbuilding. It’s not a deck builder… it’s a hand builder! Is this a bad thing? No, not at all! However, what it does is simplify things and weaken the strategies and intricacies that often come with card game mechanics; e.g. dealing with probabilities, taking risks, resource management in deck and hand size, etc. In essence, Alice’s Awakening does not encourage players to plan ahead for a deck that handles dynamic situations, it encourages the player to look at the level, then change their hand to suit that level, making the pre-planning more linear (related to illusion of choice) and less rewarding. There is no spoon, there is no deck, there is no “card game”, but there are cards.

Yet, I did had good fun, and this is all thanks to the high level of polish, the story, the characters and everything. The sense of achievement in getting more backstory and pictures on my wall after completing every mission. So what if it’s just get glamor and spam towers? I still wanna spam them towers, kill everything, it feels good. The levels change and things are different. I like it, and I think it’s one of the top submissions of the jam. If anything, Alice’s Awakening solidifies the idea that progression, rewards and ensuring a pleasant experience through charm and polish is much more important than I originally thought. They might even be key. Anyways, very well done!

This is insanely good, and hard to believe it was made in a month. Then again, every ShibeyFaceGames title I've played has been superb (even the ones I didn't like), and you've followed on from every tough-act-to-follow title with aplomb.

Does that ever get stressful?

The graphics and overall polish are excellent. The UI looks nice and responds well. Music and sound effects are also great, and used well. It's almost par for the course, but worth mentioning nonetheless.

I won't spoil the plot twist, but it was well-executed if a bit of a downer.

There are a few things that could be a little bit better. Placing towers can sometime be finicky, and the animation when a card returns from the deck is slow. I think it's telling that my only complaints are minor UI nitpicks.

I think the only major complaint I have is how short the game is. It took me about half an hour to finish the game, with a few failed levels. I'm not sure if this is a bad thing or not. The game certainly feels fresh and doesn't start to drag, but the narrative also feels very rushed like it's over before it began.

The balance might be off- I know some people have built degenerate decks in Discord- but I didn't personally find it to be this way. I did find most of the levels were a desperate rush for glamour in the beginning and then ended with a huge amount of tower spam. 

I could not make heads or tails of this game. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do anything. Sorry I couldn't offer more feedback.

I loved the game! The concept of the night hero is great, the game have nice graphics and musics too. Congratulations! :D

I like tower defense games, and I like card games. What a perfect combination.

Things I liked about this game:

• The art is GORGEOUS!
• Each scenario has unique challenges that keep me on my toes and forces me to use different cards.
• The story is intriguing and dialog isn't too lengthy

Things I didn't like:

• It's kinda hard to tell where valid placement locations are. I would try to arrange the towers in a grid but it's not clear to me where exactly the tower will be when I drop it and whether I have enough space in the area for another future tower.
• I can't predict what cards I will need for an upcoming scenario without first playing the scenario. Some sort of preview of the location, like a layout on the mission select screen, would be helpful. The mission difficulty rating doesn't tell me much.
• It's a small thing, but the Alice's closed-mouth expression looks unnatural. I guess it could be argued that it makes sense given what she is, but it's a sore spot in her design IMO.

I played this game to completion and enjoyed it the whole way through, despite some rough points. Way to go!

i tried the strategy people talking about, which is quickly boosting the energy source, but even with that, the final levels still is kinds challenging. i am not sure if it's a good thing. because once the  energy source is built and the character is not killed yet. it basically just repeatly adding towers until the end. but i don't know a way to fix it. 

Definitely the easiest game in the series ... I think if you spam the basic energy and basic tower you can beat all the levels easy enough, well at least until you take off 300+ energy and then just place whatever you feel like. 

I think the story is well told, but maybe the themes are getting repeated in your games too many times ( friendship/love, being left alone, subterfuge by the central organization) . I mean I guess its hard to really demand much from a jam entry which required shoehorning with the genres and all. 

I agree with Ran, its a sad thing that its so fast paced, because I don't really get the chance to enjoy looking at the animations and bad guys and stuff. 

I don't really mind having the whole deck (almost) unlocked, but sadly there didn't seem to be much use or need to have so many things. I think if you were to keep on working on this, you'd need to add weaknesses and advantages to things and really make sure each thing has a use.

Anyway it was fun, colorful and overall well done. 

As always it's a high quality, highly polished game with great graphics and awesome music by Facemeltingsolos; and add interesting story as a bonus -- amazing job.

I must say though I thought TD x Card were something new but I just realized that... PvZ is TD x Card isn't it lol damn it XD

Gameplay wise though... I think playing your game I realized exactly why most TD games have wave system and are usually way, way more slow-paced than this. I guess with the fast pace this game has I was given little time to think; though luckily the game balance is somewhat in the favor of the player so mostly I could do whatever I wanted and still win; except for the boss stages I suppose where I needed to put some decoys -- very commendable design decision.

With some tweakings and maybe let's see... making the cards unlockable let's say so that it's not so overwhelming at first (a more introductory stage would be nice)... I think this has got some potential to become a bigger game.