Overall:

• I enjoyed this one.
• A lot of little nitpicks felt like enjoyment/execution things, so you'll see a lot of those listed in one or the other of those places.
• You have a lot of good building blocks in terms of ideas. It feels (in a good way) like some of what I've experienced of Soulsborne titles
• Some of the points below might seem contradictory or even lead to weird results if taken too seriously. In particular I want to recall as a fellow dev that as the critiquer of course, my job is mainly to tell you what I'm seeing and if I happen to provide a good suggestion or solution, that might be a lot of things but it's not the expected result
• I made a number of comments about speed and world size--I think I stick by the speed one, but just wanted to note that whatever you do I think will work as long as it solves the (to me) central issue of feeling like one is walking through a fair bit of empty space

Enjoyment 4/5

• Enjoyed my time with this overall
• Boss was pretty baller for a first boss
• Please make everything move like 30% faster, except maybe the spears

Execution 3/5:

• (Apologies here is where most of my design nitpicks are going)
• Actual fighting feels decent. Not sure the basic dudes really needed to take 3 hits
• Spear dudes feel more annoying than challenging, though to be fair I didn't do a great job of blocking them
• Not always clear on the intended LOS for the soldiers
• Quality of Life request: Start the player with a potion and have it refill automatically on re-spawn
• Ran across some visual glitching on the web, desktop seemed fine

Sensory 3/5

• Visuals do the job. Music isn't really noticeably complementary in a good way but isn't noticeable in a bad way either
• SFX were good, ambience a nice touch. More audio feedback when getting hit by enemies would be nice
• This could go under Enjoyment or Execution, but in terms of worldbuilding and enjoyment alike I think it would've done well to consider a game area of about 50% of the size of this one for your jam entry. I feel like I spent a lot of time...walking through areas that felt empty. Walking through relatively full, if smaller, places that once appeared to be inhabited might have helped the overall sensory experience. Right now it kind of feels like someone built some pre-fab apartments for the cult or whatever it is you're intruding on but nobody's really moved in yet
• You might have a slight conveyance issue on how the boss hands work, the first time, though I'm hard pressed to tell you what I think the alternative would be

Metroidvania 3/5:

• It doesn't really register much as one right now but I feel like even though it's only used once or twice, there's at least non-negligible effort made to give a mobility/area unlock ability here such that had the game expanded, its Metroidvanianess would have similarly done so

Wow, you know what you are doing! Hotline Miami and some nice difficulty. Good game design, good presentation, good sounds. I like the premise. Maybe the camera should zoom in a little more, or have the characters a bit bigger in terms of proportion with the environment. Keep the good work!

Try to find the sequence break in our game :D

I love the attention to details, for example the reverb effect on sounds when going inside.
Some simple things like having destroyable objects and being able to sneak and kick enemies down are pretty nice additions, somehow I felt empowered.
The fact that walking is slower when not going forward feels realistic but I couldn't get used to it.
I appreciated the intro, together with the audio, it certainly sets the mood.

It was tiny. It needs to be bigger. When you fullscreen the look ability goes haywire. I would like to try this game its just too small to understand whats going on without a fullscreen.

Will come back and check this out later

despite some bugs and visual glitches here and there, it was good. The only thing i didn't enjoy was that exploration felt too time consuming and not rewarding at all, i checked inside every house just in case i missed some secret but sadly all were empty. btw, I don't know if it was intended but you can just walk out of the main zone from a house in the upper right section of the map, i thought we were on a ship flying in the sky so that was weird. The combat was good and the boss was fun, i liked that you get a peek into the boss before actually fighting it. Good job on this game.

Really juicy game, and the combat is pretty hard but seems fair.  I think the character movement speed is too low, but really liked the presentation!  

Great game! The presentation is top notch. I like the intro cutscene & the lighting. The combat is quite fun & reminds me of Hotline Miami mixed with Dark Souls. I tried running past the enemies & was impressed that they follow you for a good while. I couldn't find where to go in the game & the slow movement made me bail. I think the map needs better visual direction to the objectives.

this is nice! i really liked the boletaria gate opening lol, i was like why does this seem so familiar. it's a nice tribute. i think the combat is decent and manages to get a good back and forth. like it manages to make the tools you have feel useful and necessary. i think the speed of the character and the distance of the dodge are both way too low and make the character feel a bit like a dump truck. it may even be an issue of scale, given that the camera is zoomed so far out. i like how you mixed up the enemies, pairing ranged units with melee, and it was especially fun trying to get the ranged units to hit the melee ones. there was also a nice progression to the encounters. i had a lot of strange hangs, where the game would hang for up to 5 seconds after i hit a box or enemy. there would also be random hangs where the camera would teleport somewhere and quickly lerp back to the player. all told, great work on this! 

The combat system is nice, the art look nice too, I like the top down view of the game. 

 The boss fight is interesting but when the player is inside a building, the music stop, so not sure if there are any music for the boss. Also everytime when you killed the guy that can block your attack, the audio start lagging and stopped. It only return to normal after you go back to fountain.

But still, cool game!

Sorry for the late feedback. Recording and uploading these takes a bit of time. Enjoy!

Wow this game is so cool in so many ways! At first I was like "man it would be interesting if the combat would require me to do more than just smack three times", and then the armored and ranged enemies come in! The kick was very cool, and the dynamic shadows and rooftops were awesome. I did eventually have performance issues - the game would lag when I did a certain action, and about right after the first armored enemy, the screen began to shake so violently that everything would turn lime green and I couldn't see what was going on? Weird bug, but very well done!

Great entry! I liked the top-down combat, though there is an issue with blocking where the player character doesn’t block if you hold right click during the attack animation.

I had some stutters in the browser, so I tried the windows build, which worked fine.I just had troubles figuring out where to go.

I really dig the Hotline Miami aesthetics!