Aw man, I was really looking forward to this one! The graphics and presentation is absolutely PERFECT. The overworld theme is absolute 🔥🔥 That bassline is so good!
But I just couldn't really get into the gameplay. It was really hard to predict enemy movements and so I just kept dying over and over :(
Would have much rather launched magic missiles and fireballs from a safe distance; the bumping mechanic was hard to do without taking massive damage from every monster
I tried one last time and attempted to avoid enemies this time. I got to explore the nearby town and talk to some people, i explored south next and found a cave. Unfortunately I encountered an ogre and in 0.2 seconds I was down to 4 hp. Had to eat my apple and then enter the cave. Got rekt by the ogres in there, game over again. I think I have to call it there, I really wanted to give it a good shot but it's a bit too punishing right now with the balance.
Overall great execution, and it might be able to be salvaged with just tweaking some numbers a bit or adding a difficulty mode at least.