i really enjoyed the art for this and the boss fights had some great ideas and were well executed. i especially like the second boss with the multiple heads and how they go underwater during the second phase, and honestly just getting multi phase fights in there is really nice. i saw in some other comments that you had run out of time for adding upgrades and that's why there are a lot of dead ends, which is totally understandable. the wind up on the spell and the dash makes combat a non-starter and it's clearly meant to be a major part of the game. it feels really sluggish and unresponsive to dash and to shoot the fireball and as soon as i realized that i avoided all of the enemies. it's obviously intentional so i certainly don't want to say you just shouldn't have done that, but i do still want to tell you how it felt to play. it feels unique certainly but it also feels like it would require a ton of polish to get to a place that controls well and the encounters would need to be built with it in mind. i hope you continue this, i think it could go somewhere!

I really liked this game, especially the feedback on damaging enemies felt really nice.  I do feel like enemies might have too much health, if they're running towards the player it's really tough to kill them and not take damage.  It seems like the player can't attack fast enough.  I also found that I think these platforms are a little too close together to allow you to jump back up.  I had to use coyote time to jump up, if I jumped while I was still on the platform the character would bonk their head on the platform above and the jump was cut short.   Awesome submission though, thank you for the fun!

One of the coolest bosses I've seen this jam. nice original artwork. A little gaussian blur and variation of saturation between the play area and background would help. Multi-directional casting is a great idea, though it would be more useful with one-way collision set up so it could pass through the platforms. Wasn't sure where to go after the first boss fight, but the fight itself was very fun and satisfying! Nice hand-drawn style too, what program(s) were used for the art?

The art was really beautiful but didn't like looking at the low res backgrounds at all, burring the sprites would have helped. The character movement was ok but i constantly had problems with the attack windup. The first boss fight i would say was perfect with the character moveset at that point, sadly, after that the enemies felt unfair compared to what the character could do, especially the final boss fight, underwater movement didn't felt good at all, dodging consistently in that final stage was out of the question so ended up brute forcing it till he died, i like challenging games so i kinda liked it but it felt really unfair. I also liked the huge variety of enemies on this game, but exploration felt pointless with a lot of dead ends so after a certain point i just rushed to the boss. Soundtrack was good to me and the fact that it felt like a complete game from start to finish with even 2 boss fights is incredible, you did great.

Sorry for the late feedback. Here you go!

I really enjoyed this. Bumped that it only had movement controller support. Loved the art/parallax the chill music and overall presentation. I have seen a lot of game with this kind of style the downward  movement single player platformer and its hard to compete with some of my favorites so far, but this up there in my top 5 of this style.... I give a 4.25 I will come back and check it out further when I can. Good job for first 10-15 mins of play-through impression!

Very atmospheric, but a bit monotone.

I like the art, art direction, and music very much, the sound affects don't stand out, but aren't bad either.

Good variety of enemies, with unique behaviours.

Character movement was nice, and didn't get into the way of enjoying the game, but the attack is a different case. The windup is way too long on it. I don't know where to put the ability to attack up and down also, It comes out to slow to hit flying enemies, and you don't have a knockback or bounce when attacking down, so you take damage if you try to do that.

I was pretty  directionless when exploring the map. You descend an elevator at the start, which is a nice start and makes you get ready to explore some unknown place. I was surprised to see another elevator right after that, and then another one. It takes the emphasis out of using a setpiece like that. Then I was pretty much lost traversing rooms, killed a boulder spitting wall creater, ended up back at the start, and got stuck in the ground.

I'd do want to play more of this, though.

I enjoyed it - if I could give one piece of feedback I'd say there is a bit too much delay on attacking so it often tripped me up when I was fighting things.