Finally got to playing this, and not a moment too soon. Overall, one of my favorites that I've played so far!

Overall, I enjoyed the whole experience. I guess rather than say "I liked this part" over and over, I'll go straight to my nitpicks.

The dialogue had quite a few typos and misspellings (in English anyhow, can't speak to other versions.)

Gameplay was good overall, bosses 1 & 2 were my favorites. The zoom never really came in hand for me in this one. The quad jump was nice though. The last boss was really hard, but a lot of that was the incredibly frustrating lumps around the edges of the arena. I have a hard enough time dealing with 3D bullet hell, but those lumps just felt like a thorn in my shoe.

I didn't really understand the collectables that popped out of the bosses... were those for score or something?

All and all, it was another great entry in the series! I'm not sure if I liked it better than "Lament on the Brine". Having a fully arena to move in was nice, but there's something about that one that was really cool. But this is pretty close, and if it was expanded I could see it overtaking "Lament" as my new favorite. Either way, really great work!

To be honest, I've always had a complicated view of the Song of Morus games. I respect the hell out of them creatively, but I've felt that they're really not for me. I love the art and incorporation of local culture, I often find the gameplay concepts interesting, but almost every game in the series is way too hard for me.

I wasn't expecting to be able to beat this one, and I didn't, but I got a lot further along than I thought I would. I think it's a little closer to my comfort zone, and I got a lot of mileage out of circle strafing.

Gameplay-wise, it's hard to say what's an actual flaw and what I just don't like. I didn't like that there's no health regeneration mechanic and if you do badly in the first wave, you're screwed later. I didn't like that you could get caught on terrain in the first level. I didn't like how bullet-spongy the enemies were. I didn't like that it was hard to tell when you took damage or why. But I don't know if any of these constitute real flaws.

The environments are impressive. I know they're 3D scans provided by third parties, and if you look closely there's a lot of roughness, but in gameplay you don't really notice that. You just see bright, colourful, detailed environments. The character models don't stand out as much, but still look good.

I found the story to be surprisingly compelling. There's some mythological backstory worked in, a macguffin, some new characters, a potentially world-ending plot. The last game kinda had an excuse plot to be honest, so having a stronger narrative this time is much appreciated.

The dialogue could use proofreading- which I know is partly my fault. It's rough in general, but also unintentionally hilarious. The first line of the game is an accidental innuendo, and there's at least one more later in the game. I'm kind of on the fence on this, but I think given the tone of the game and the series it makes more sense to fix this up than leave it.

All in all, some impressive work on display, and I enjoyed this one more than I thought I would.

As always magnificent game.

Also as always it's very difficult.

I don't have any major complaints, but sometimes the characters faces distorts where the eyes disapear and it just looks weird.

Keep at it.

Clearly a lot has been taken from previous titles and a lot more effort went into story this time.

The problem is that last time with the boat, the limited space on the boat provided most of the challenge, since space was so limited, the patterns could be created focusing on that space. 

This time I found that for most phases or patterns I could outrun anything, the space of the map made it so that I could most of the time hug the corners and shoot from a mile away and almost not have to dodge anything. 

My first play through I tried to actually dodge and be sort of faithful to the proposed game play and it was just tiring and got killed much faster.

Second play through I just ran as far as possible and shot from a mile away. This works and sort of breaks the game as I'm not even sure I even cared or noticed patterns / phases anymore.

suggestions :

1) the stage size requires a change in how the bad guys behave ... I think the only phase that challenged the run and shoot from furthest distance was the fox teleport phase. I suggest more phases that the bad guy can cut the distance between player or to use player position prediction as part of the bullet pattern in some phases.

2) I feel like you are missing several sound effects that could be nice to add and make sure some important sounds are louder.  You might have to dig into Unity's mixer, to lower

3) Story could use some grammar correction ( sorry I didn't help this time, was too busy with my game). I also think it could maybe be overall better if there were less things, more jam packed? Like you could have 1 stage with the 3 characters and maybe 6-8 phases total and do the story between phases ? That way maybe you could have made something more dramatic with less work divided in 3 stages. The ending was a good cliffhanger and actually starts a good goal for next game ( I think that might be a first in the series?) I just wish the set up had been better instead of just a random package, but maybe that can be tied in to future story (who sent the package and why?)

4) the candy points ... was there a reason to that ?  Seems pointless in current version.  Same as the score at the end, there is no breakdown of how you got it, so seems arbitrary.

5) Music was nice =]  Just maybe along with #2 above, you might wanna lower volume dynamically. This is mostly polish of course.

Anyway, lots of harping on details, but overall the game is a pretty solid submission.

This is great! I'm impressed by what you made in the short time allotted for this jam. The visuals look great, especially the character models. Although, I agree with AiSucks that the AI-generated images are kinda bad but because they're in the background it's not bothersome to me. And as was previously pointed out there's a fluctuation in difficulty and minor grammar errors but it's overall well-made.

I played this a few days ago but I just realised you were asking for feedback. The game is surprisingly polished considering it is a jam game. Stuff like the camera movement in cutscenes was cool. But I think there needs to be more variation in patterns in future, for example many patterns were some sort of ring of bullets. The patterns that were more different stood out though so I guess it might just be a time constraint problem. Also the stage environments are really cool.

Big Game Jam fan and observer here! I think you almost have something really cool here! But the use of AI, while minimal, still sucks, not gonna lie. I will admit some bias here and say I found this game through Twitter, but yeah... the AI Use is distracting when looking at the backgrounds. 

I like the music, and the design of the pentashade stone. The title screen changing after clearing the game is a nice touch too.

There are a few grammar errors, but nothing too major, the story is still understandable.

Not sure if it's just me, but stage 1 felt more difficult than stage 2 or 3. Especially during the second phase, when the boss teleports into a blind spot and I accidentally run right into his attacks.