Good:

• The shortcuts are really nice. I had a really nice moment with the first one, where I had a choice of two paths, and was able to guess that going right would let me open a shortcut. It's a really good feeling, and I think it speaks to good level design.
• The atmosphere is good. Strange, unsettling colours, and oddly disturbing animations on the enemies. I think it comes together nicely.
• The combat works well. Getting a hit in, then dashing away feels satisfying.

Bad:

• Some guidance on the controls would be good. It wasn't too hard to work out on a gamepad (and thank you so much for supporting those!), but on keyboard, I had no idea. Eventually I triggered an attack by clicking on a menu, but I still have no idea how to dash.
• Speaking of controls, pressing enter caused the game to quit to the menu with no warning and, as far as I can tell, no save.
• Obviously, you ran out of time, but if you plan to continue this project, I'd like to see more juice. Combat is good, but it could be so much more satisfying with some screenshake, freeze-frames, and sound effects. I want to really feel the impact, especially from the big sword guys.

Overall, I like this game. It controls really nicely and it has a good atmosphere. Hope you find time to finish it!

Good game. I gave you a solid rating. Thanks for adding controller support. One of the better games I've played. It's a good-looking game. Character control is basic but polished. I didn't encounter any game breaking bugs or obvious oversite or something. I'm not sure why you implemented a pickup that I can't pickup yet, (Attack+ not implemented.) For me it's not motivating, but hey, everyone is different. Overall you have a game to be proud of here. Contrats. 

I think--and I may be guilty of this as well--that you spend too much time polishing the graphics, and not enough time on the actual gameplay...oh well! Still a beautiful game

Man, it's finally good to play this after watching the progress.

What I liked

• The knockback distance feels hilariously fun. I sometimes expected to hit a wall and get a bounce effect.
• The wall sliding and edge climbing looked and felt fun.
• I really liked how the music fit with the visuals.
• Difficulty felt pretty balanced.
• I'm always a fan of being able to play with my controller.

Improvements/Suggestions/General Feedback

• We've talked about player feedback before so, one thing that comes to mind is enemy deaths. I gave it some experimentation, and it looks likes there's supposed to be a death effect on enemies, but it looks like it will only play if they die in a specific state. If that were fixed, I wouldn't feel like enemy deaths sounds need to implemented, at least for your standard enemies. I do think there needs to be a death sounds for the big boys though. As a player, if I take down something huge, I want to feel the success.
• Also player feedback related - dashing.  I feel you could go two ways with it. Either implement a dashing sound or add an air distortion effect around the player and be ok without a sound. I think the effect would help the player infer that there are iframes, instead of having to list it on your game page.

I definitely enjoyed what you have so far, and happy to finally play it after seeing progress reports.