So uh... I appreciate what you have going on here and there are some interesting ideas here, but I just had to give up after dying (three times) to the Scarlet Devil Mansion section. That is a massive difficulty spike you have going on, I think having 30-40 enemies is fine for a challenge but... uh... 80-120 enemies per room is... kind of pushing it....

I'll try my best to list all the pros and cons I have of the game here.

Pros/Advantages

• The art and music is very neat and cute. 
• The pixel art was quite well-done, I particularly liked the enemy designs.
• Energy gain is quite lenient in this game, a good run can get you enough energy to purchase 3-4 upgrades from the shop (early on at least).
• The roguelike feel with the randomized room maps, treasure chests, and enemy formations was captured nicely.
• Many of the items are designed with clear intention in mind - the weapons all have meaningful uses and you are encouraged to switch between them during turns for optimal attacks. Bind Snake is extremely strong but requires some careful planning so you don't accidentally kill it, the potions are meant to be used when you're in an enemy's face and you can't stack their effects, etc.

Cons/Weaknesses

• Despite their strategic nature above, the weapons and spells are too weak...! Khakkhara and Bind Snake have good synergy sure but it's weird having those two items only work with each other and nowhere else. I can't see the significance of wooden smacker (I forgot its name, sorry)'s Stunned-inflicting status, the final weapon (I forgot its name too) is strong but can only be used once (so it may as well be just a spell??) and overall Katakana and Naginata are the only ones worth using. The ranges are extremely underwhelming in particular - so many enemies can hit you from afar, and yet you're stuck with the same 5/10 damage and 1/2 range attacks, it's really discouraging.
• There's barely any feedback for damage or healing. No enemy HP counts, no indicator for Sanae's HP, damage numbers are ridiculously small, there are barely any sound effects... Using cool attacks with good feedback is a big part of roguelikes and I think you didn't accomplish that, sorry.
• Potions can miss. Why can they miss?????? I had a health potion and an invincibility potion miss, giving me neither HP nor invincibility and making me lose two precious potions, why???? Please fix this immediately, thank you.
• The partner mechanic doesn't work. Teaming up with Reimu just defaults to Aya instead, and they don't seem to assist you in any way at all.
• The story is... bugged? I died while doing Aya's quest in the second area and when I respawned, the quest was no longer there and there was simply no story from the Forest area onwards. 
• Easy Mode is not very well-implemented, it only changes your maximum HP and nothing else. It's not very helpful.

I'm sorry for being harsh, I think this has potential to be a great game! It's just that I didn't see much of that potential being explored at all, both in story and gameplay. I was left unsatisfied, but regardless I'll be interested to see a post-jam update flesh it out into something amazing.

fun little game but several issues:

- like others mentioned i too got the black screen after the remilia dialogue. kind of a bummer to get softlocked right b4 the bossfight.

- the amount of fairies in the mansion was quite tedious. maybe balance that out a bit more?

- the mansion was HUGE with all those rooms i did have to do some backtracking to get to doors i havent gone through before. a running mode would be nice. also a map at least for the huge mansion areas....

- about the "Khakkhara"... why is there even a weapon that is weaker than the starter weapon? i dont see the point of it at all...

- u cant change directions while u still hold any movement key. example: if u run left then press up while still holding left and then releasing it u keep running left even though u only hold up. u need to release all arrow keys first in order to change directions.

- spell miracle fruit did not give atk and def buff. and since there seems to be no enemies that can cause negative status the cleansing efect of miracle fruit cant be verified. so basically useless.

EDIT:
- i tried to redo it after the black screen. i could still go back to the "menu" with ESC but after i got to the remilia doors again nothing happened. i couldnt interact with em anymore.
- also a real "back to menu" and/or close button would be nice instead of being force to ALT+F4 out of the game.

Going to be blunt, I don't think the game's enjoyable enough for a roguelike, a genre that makes you go over a couple playthroughs or four. There are many things didn't cut it for me.

First, the dialogue. The topics are not fascinating but not too uninteresting, sure, but that's not the problem. The problem I have with this is it feels like a text dump. There's like one or two minutes of reading every 2 levels, which feels like it gets in the way of gameplay. I'd be fine with long convos  at "chapter conclusions" (like getting to the next area or beating a boss) - but this gave me the impression that the game flow gets interrupted quite often.

There are also a couple bugs and poor implementations in this game. Unfortunately, it's the kinds that get in the way.
Like, just the first level, they tell me I could team up with Aya. I look for the button to "equip" her but didn't find it. Then later "I can team up with Reimu" and still haven't found out how I do that. It was until just a level later I figured it has something to do about returning to base, but I knew this was a roguelike, and I really didn't want to lose my progress for one teammate so I just carried on.
So yes that meant I went all the way from base to final level with no purchase at the shop (which allows chests to contain new weapons, potions and spell), and no teammate - collecting only healing potions on the way.
After 4 levels of Scarlet Devil Mansion (each level having 65+ enemies you have to defeat?? This is madness!) I finally get to the final boss and... I get softlocked?? I spent one hour fighting waves of very low variety of enemies (comprising only of melee enemy, sniper enemy and medic enemy) - which quickly became too easy to know how to face them, leading to one monotonous fight after the other - and I'm not even allowed to see the end, That deeply demotivated me.

So I figured it must have been because I didn't choose a partner. I rebooted the game, went with Aya, and farmed a bit of enemy kills to try out things from the shop before going all the way to final boss. One thing real quick, why do the weapons that hurt say they heal, and why does the healing staff says it damages? Anyway, the shop's upgrades feel underwhelming. Quickly found out the naginata (2 range, 5 damage) just negated the need for any other spell or potion or weapons because the enemies are so not tricky to deal with in the first place (I even wished later I didn't buy new chest item variety because that meant there was less healing potions dropped).

And so, with a couple of farming reset (also, the Aya/Reimu sidequest buttons show up when I come back to base, weird) and lots and lots of squeaking enemies later (that quickly became annoying), I finally reach the final doors of SDM and... I can't even enter? 

I gave up. That's a shame, because the portraits are nice to look at, the gameplay is functional at its core (and turn-based roguelike gameplay is kinda based), and the soundtrack is actually a bit enjoyable.

Cute little RPG (?) Roguelike (?) Hydlide clone (???). I like the "turn-based" system there, though it has its faults. I found that the best way to deal with most enemies was to open the door and attack the enemies with the knife as they walked through the doorway single-file. It was pretty consistent, but not a super fun way to approach the combat.

Also, it was really hard to tell what some of the potions and spells did. There was a golden staff weapon that seemed to do abysmal damage and only work at 1 range. The game didn't let me bring Reimu with me at all-- it just defaulted to Aya every time. And I still have no idea what the hourglass R-key thing does Apparently it skips a turn, but walking into a wall just does the same thing. Maybe it's more useful than it seems, though I'll have to play the game again to know. I'm not gonna do that now, because like some others, I got softlocked upon getting to Remilia. The cutscene played, and then the stage went black and I couldn't move. Pretty sad, as I was looking forward to the bossfight.

Nice writing too, though it often feels a little long-winded. You mention that you were trying to make this like a visual novel, but I think a bit more presentational flair would help. The fact that you can see the gameplay while the characters are talking, as well as the story stuff being automatically skipped after your first time reading, makes it all feel a lot less important. I think having a skip dialogue button (or if there is one, telling the player what it is) would help.

Like Aeon said, it was hard to tell what the enemy ranges were, and I didn't even notice that some enemies could heal others until reading the other comments. And yeah, there could've been a lot less enemies in the SDM. It got pretty repetitive, and the gameplay became more about how many health potions would show up in chests than much skill or strategy.

In short, 'twas likable yet unpolished.

Hoenstly Really enjoyed playing. It was a cute little game that gave me a challenge, however I was quickly able to learn the game and devise a plan to get through it. Ive told the artist Colorfulkitten about the bugs (thankfully not many) I ran into like Remy sending Sanae to the shadow realm(looks like other people ran into the same issue). She said she'll Relay it back to y'all so thats good. 

This was an enjoyable experience, it was fun figuring out how the 3 enemies work and how to defeat them. I while the red enemies that fire through wall were annyoning and same with health potions being able to miss, I found it an added challenge that made gameplay more difficult but feel much more rewarding. really only major grips was those last two things I mentioned and how many enemies you have to kill in the final stages, with it only being those 3 types. makes it feel more repetitive. In the End y'all Did a really good job, I can see myself returning back to play this more and maybe even try speed running it. I look forward to see what y'all would add after the voting is over.

Neat little roguelike. Unfortunately I couldn't complete it... First time I reached the last boss (I think), the stage went black and I couldn't move at all after the cutscene. I went back to the menu and tried again, and this time the 3 red doors in the last stage wouldn't activate or do anything :( Alas. I was enjoying Sanae's interactions with Aya and Reimu.

The portaits are pretty cute. I was also a bit confused at first by the long distance attacks, but quickly got into the groove after that. I am not very good at roguelikes so I liked how this one was rather forgiving.

i am sorry! i stopped playing when i died while looking for money in bushes! forgot to use potions!

it's pretty hard to tell where an enemy's range is. one guy was just hitting me from anywhere in the map and i thought i was taking damage because i was running into walls

i just played it like necrodancer with no time limit or gold worries where you run into walls until the enemies step into the right spot to kill themselves on you but i couldnt tell if it was working because it was working or because the other guys just weren't attacking

the talksprites are very nice and the movement is pretty servicable

i like the thorough command options for items

Hello ! This is not the style of game I like, that said, here are some feedbacks that I hope will be useful to you.

Cons :

- too much dialogues for my taste

- I had a hard time understanding the weapon/combat system

- the potions used when you are max HP are lost

- I didn't manage to take advantage of the hourglass

Pros:

- it's nice to have an indicator of our position in the top right of the screen

- music and sounds

- character work

- the input controls that adapt to the AZERTY keyboard

- the adjustable difficulty

- the story and its different atmospheres

- the synchronized movements with the enemies is original (but a tutorial on the hourglass would have been welcome because in the end I just played like a brute without understanding the subtlety of the gameplay)

In summary, despite some frustrations, the game seems well finished with a story and an atmosphere that works well, congratulations to all of you!