I basically addressed all of these in the last two replies so I won't repeat myself too much here lol. Pixel sizes are going to be the first thing I fix for the next version, and I'll definitely be adding sound effects. I actually realized later that I had some sound effects I'd made lying around and was upset I didn't use them. Glad you liked the controls and music. Thanks for playing and thanks for your feedback!

My one regret is not adding some sound effects. Probably wouldn't have even taken very long. Definitely had ideas for other enemies but in the end didn't really have the time to make them.

As far as the spells go, my idea is this is probably the most spells you would get within one dungeon, although the fireball would probably come from a mini-boss so that you can open the vine walls and progress to the final boss, and then there would ideally be a mechanic that required using the fireball spell to beat it. Likewise I tried to make it so the boss incentivized staying away and using the ranged spell. Originally planned on programming the boss to stay away from the player, but ended up just using the same random logic as the bats and then having the fireballs aim for the player, meaning if you're closer to the boss, it's harder to dodge.

I'm definitely going to be going back to this one soon. I plan on restructuring a lot of it, mainly because I realized too late that my rooms were going to be asymmetrical with the doors off-center. Hope you check it out when I've released a new version (I'll be leaving this version up as a jam version for posterity's sake.)

Thanks for playing and thanks for your feedback :)

Yeah, the sprite scaling was my workaround to getting things the right size when I hadn't decided that while making them. And then, of course, when I needed a last-minute boss. I used an NES palette in Aseprite to limit my color options so I'm not sure that's an issue, though they might be more vibrant than necessary. Glad you like the character controls because that was my main priority while making it. Thanks for playing!

I realized that a little late lol. I was trying to keep things consistent but then I had an issue with things needing different scaling and decided it would be too much of a time sink to try and fix that before the end of the jam. Thanks for the feedback :)