First thing that sticks out is that this game's aesthetic is amazing. The pixel art, the music, hell even the font, it's  all extremely cool. I love the main character's design too. I think the movement feels solid as well. There's a lot of great stuff there. Unfortunately, I also have my fair share of gripes.

I'm not gonna repeat too much of what the other comments already said about the controls, while I agree that both the dash and the walljump could be more intuitive

I think a main thing about this game is that it seems to have a bit of an identity crisis. Due to either a bug or me not paying attention, I completely missed the parts about timing attacks to the beat for a long time, and I honestly don't think it affected my gameplay at all. There was only one enemy type I encountered, and I could trivially beat them by just mashing the attack button. The game, by its level design, seems like it's more interest in little switch puzzles and tight movement challenges than combat.  I don't think that's inherently bad or anything, but I did find myself a little unsure about the relevance of the timing attack, since the game seems more interested in trying to be a Celeste-like precision platformer. During my playthrough, I never felt like combat was a challenge, while the movement challenges were consistently very difficult. And very punishing.

Here's a section I got stuck at for a long time, as an example. To get to where I'm standing, you need to do a pretty tricky wall jump into the double dash powerup, then do a double dash to the top right wall, and do another walljump, avoiding spikes in the process. After you step on a platform, you have to fall off the ledge, dash into the double dash again, use that double dash to cling to the left wall, then wall jump onto the platform. And then, after you've done all that? You jump to the other side to get instant killed by the spikes on the ceiling that are barely visible and you have to do that whoooole very precise sequence all over again. There's no second tries, no checkpoints, no recovering for mistakes, you just immediately die. This results in doing the same jumps over and over again just to get another shot at retrying the jump you're stuck on, which I just don't find engaging. Did those ceiling spikes at the end really need to be there? Do they really add something? Or would this challenge have been less interesting if there was a save point at the pressure plate at the top?

In the end, I got stuck on the segment where you need to race the raising hazard floor after getting the double jump. I'm not sure how much game is after that, but I just couldn't do it, and I was starting to hurt my hands, so I had to call it quits.

Sorry for the long ramble, I hope I don't sound too negative! There's a lot of stuff I really love here, which is why I spent so much time on it, but personally, I found myself a bit confused about what sort of game you want this to be. If you do focus more on the combat, perhaps these kinds of precise punishing movement challenges are better reserved for optional areas.

I love the concept behind this game and the aesthetic is super appealing, especially  the main character and background designs. Unfortunately, I didn't get very far - the wall jump did me in, especially when I struggled with a very long vertical climb only to drop off the other side and discover I didn't have the key I needed. I would love to see what this game can become if you stick to the vision though.

Some other thoughts:

- The attack animation takes a long time to come out. If you're going to pair it with attackong on the beat, then it needs to be almost instantaneous or the feedback isn't very clear.

- The beat also needs to be pretty clear and high tempo (or enemies need to be balanced around slower music). The music itself was appealing, but it didn't have a strong bassline to drive the action, and a lot of times I'd wait to sync my attack up with the beat just to be punched by an approaching enemy.

- Others have said it, but the wall jump is really hard to get good at. It requires you to stop holding the direction input when jumping and then entering the direction input while in mid-air, but if your timing is even a little bit off and you accidentally hit the direction input before the jump input you'll send yourself downwards. This made doing long, vertical climbing sections very frustrating as the key inputs never felt entirely intuitive or smooth (and eventually my wrist started to hurt...).

But yeah, a rhythm based action game with the kind of graphics and overall presentation shown off here sounds super cool, and I hope you keep up with it if that's what you're interested in.

I really like the potential in this game, the aesthetics are really cool, and the main character is really charismatic. That said, the difficulty curve is too steep in my opinion (maybe I am awful). Even though the platforming spaces are fascinating, they become too hard too quickly for me to get used to, and I have to try too many times. In fact, I rage-quitted, I will admit.

The wall jump is hard to get right, and there are not many parts where you can practice it in an easy situation. It feels really strange that moving towards the wall and jumping takes you off the wall. But that you can get used to.

The dash has some weird controls. It is mapped to the mouse, but the mouse position is not what determines the direction. If the mouse is not going to influence the dash, in my opinion it should be mapped to a key, since this way it feels really weird.

For the combat, I love the idea of having to time your attacks with the music, but I really did not get the feeling well, it was a bit clunky, maybe it lacked some feedback? My feeling is that I did not get your idea right, which is a shame, since, as I said, it is a really cool mechanic. In the end, I just hoped for combat to end.

To end with all the things that were done well, apart from the aesthetics already mentioned, the level design is great, I did not feel lost at any point, and it taught me well the mechanics (as I said, I would probably need some easier platforming spaces before the difficult ones). There are many save points, which I feel is a great decision for the style aimed for. And the game is fun, which is the most important part. In fact, all the things I said can be neglected, but fixing them in some way might make the game an awesome experience.

(As a game developer, I know not everything I said can be applied as some things might go against your view, but knowing how I feel can help you get your view more accurately)

Wow the aesthetic of this game is beautiful as whole... I love the concepts.... I got stuck often and died more often I had hoped.... Other than that I may come back and see if I am missing something here in this one.... I really think there is probably more and I am just not quite playing it the way it was designed! 

I like the art style and the character design is really interesting. I love the way its head points while your run and looks around! The art style and tile mapping and music all work well together too. will def come back and try and beat this at some point. too difficult for one sitting.

 the music was nice, there was one spot I somehow managed to get 2 songs overlapping, went back up into a puzzle area after maybe caused it?

One thing I noticed is control wise its difficult to move to the right and attack at the same time. Might consinder some remapping options or switching attack to left mouse. Controlling the direction of the dash was a bit difficult I may have gotten it down a bit better with practice. The wall sliding slowly when holding is a nice touch however I did find myself falling quite a bit when trying to wall jump quickly and not hitting the opposite direction fast enough.