Is this your artwork? If it is, it is very well made. It might have been a good thing I died because I got to experience the death sequence which I enjoyed (I know, strange right) but it was a cool animation and the voice acting adds to it. I forgot to change my refresh rate so I played it on the super difficult mode but it seemed okay enough. :P Didn't like those darn bats or whatever they are...they refused to die! :( 

Well done! Game was a lot of fun.  The enemy types were well executed and the A.I. was very well done.  I feel like with the enemy types you gave yourself all the tools needed to design some fun platforming but you probably could've done a little more with the actual level design to make it more fun.  Perhaps some tweaking post jam.  It was a lot of fun non-the less but I just feel like with the A.I. you've already built there is potential for a lot more.  The boss is definitely where this game shines and with the difficulty of the boss I think it was a wise choice to put a checkpoint just before the boss.  I think players would have lost patience quickly if there was lots of back tracking.  I was super impressed with alll the different boss cycles, and randomizing them was a nice touch.  Art was very nice and felt like it all fit together well in the game.  Also if you do any work on this game post jam I think this game absolutely screams for gamepad support. Solid work! 

Gorgeous graphics. Excellent level of juice and polish. Whoever did the voice lines for the boss character — that was really well done. I thought this game excelled in so many areas, control, movement, everything I pointed out in my opening line, but I thought the level design could use some tinkering.

I fought the first few enemies, but after that, I realized it was easiest to just evade and keep moving right. There was never a reason to stop and fight. Enemies didn't grant me any pickups or bonuses, and the checkpoints instantly refilled my health (I think that's smart for a jam entry so people can get further into the game), but after the first few encounters I just booked it to the boss fight. It sort of screwed me in that I had to kill like 8 bats in addition to fight the boss, but it seemed like the optimal choice.

The boss fight itself was great. The attack patterns and variation in attacks were well thought out and implemented except for two areas. I think the dropping boulders attack (gorgeous visual when he went into the background on that!) didn't leave enough telegraph time for proper reactions. And the pacing seemed a little off. There were only short windows when I was able to attack. The rest of the time I was just evading and waiting for my opening. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that. I think it would have worked great if the boss took more damage each time, but after a few rounds of evade and wait I was ready to take him out.

Overall, a condensed and fun adventure and a super impressive solo dev effort. Great work.

Nice graphic and ambience.

The boss fight had cool attacks, but I feel they were very often in a state where they could not be attacked, involving a lot of waiting.

The "only on the edge" wasn't very clear, I noticed a slight color change with a red tip, but with the smear of the sword and the rest of sword being orange it was very hard to see the part that was "the edge", it kind of felt like an excuse to plug the theme.

The bats were VERY hard to hit and would also take a lot of hits, they were too frustrating to fight so I ended up rushing the level and ignoring enemies.

The graphics are very nice, that parallax background specially in the main menu was pretty impressive. It was a good game.

Great game, nice graphics, good sound and music. Checkpoints were placed really well and the bossfight felt great. I would only say that I personally didn't feel the effect of the damage being just on the edge of the sword. Other than that very polished game, very fun to play. Well done!

LOVED IT! I also made something similar about the edge hitting part, but yours is really polished imo.

hope you check out mine: https://itch.io/jam/vimjam2/rate/1202589

Such a nice little adventure. I loved the atmoshpere, the visuals, sounds and the all the cool little effects like the  parallax or the foreground smoke. The combat also felt really good. If the boss had just a tiny tweaks, this game would be a perfect jam game: the attack where it throws the balls from left to right or right to left is almost impossible to dodge without losing hp (at least for me), and making just 1 checkpoint in the middle of his hp would've been nice. Also I'm not sure if the "sword only damages on the edge" works... I'm almost certain it worked even if I hit the enemy point blank.

A really nice entry, you'll get in the top 10 for sure :)

Good work! This is the kind of game i was hoping to see out of the jam, but quickly crossed it off my list as i thought it would be too much work for the jam. Good effort! lots of work went into this one and it shows! 

A solid entry indeed, congratulations! It was very satisfying to play and I love the brown dark aesthetics.

Great art, for both the characters and the environment. Boss fight was really well polished too. The enemy variety is impressive considering how much work was clearly also put into the boss.

I didn't really feel the effect of the sword only dealing damage on the edge. It felt like whenever I hit something with the sword in general, it would take damage. A longer sword might make that aspect of the game more clear.

The boss's attack where it sends things flying at you from the side feels really unavoidable. The top-down version is much more manageable because you can quickly move left or right.

Overall, really good job! Especially for a 1-person game.

Great game!! Beautiful bg and character designs. Also big fan of the bat's sound effects. The boss fight was satisfying - difficulty-wise it took me 3 tries which felt appropriate! I loved how different each of the boss's 3 (if i'm remembering right) moves felt - each one was distinct, polished, and got me excited when I heard the boss say his little "move announcement" sound. One suggestion is the "plague" move with the objects you have to dodge felt a little unfair when coming from the left or right. When coming from above, it was difficult but I still felt in control! From the side I wish they were a little slower. Also didn't find myself using the dash during the boss fight

Amazing dude! Movement feels good and the boss is the best I've played from the jam so far. The only thing I can say is the dash feels a little bit useless and the last section before the boss is a bit enemy spammy, but overall absolutely incredible game!

Really cool game and I really like the sound    

Only complaint is the jump button...

A very cool game that had AMAZING art. the game feels challenging yet fun which every game should.

Great little action platformer. I could see this Turing into a metroidvania, that I would play. I have two suggestions, if you run past the bats they should loose aggro at some point. Second the purple balls the plants shoot, it would be cool if I could hit them and know them into enemies. Also, I think the attack animation is too stiff. 

With my minor gripes in mind, this is better than anything I can do on Godot currently.!  Great graphics, great tutorial, overall awesome job well done!

Loved this. The gameplay was fun, the graphics and sounds were great. I appreciated the extra details you put into this such as the death animation and respawn. I also enjoyed the various attack phases of the boss.

The only thing I would suggest is mapping the attack and dash to keyboard keys as the mouse wasn't needed in the game.

Overall amazing work!

Everything in this game is great (other than the fact that I wished it could work with my gamepad), from sound design, to graphics, to game mechanics. On a purely technical standpoint, the game is impressive. It left me wanting a complete game, so way to go ! Other than that, well, there's an edge, and you fight a boss... I think a little storytelling could have help merge the game with the theme a bit more.