[EDIT: Played the Windows build. Your mileage may vary.]
It felt like I got a floppy from a friend with a game, put it on my Amiga, turned it on, and got this unique vibe. Tracker music, hand-crafted art, and a good challenge to boot.
Problem is, I suck at platformers. I suck at games overall, but more specifically at platformers. Specially those that have more challenging techniques like dashing. I felt like I was trying to play Through The Fire And The Flames on Guitar Hero and just kept on crashing onto. the. same. wall.
over. and. over.
Until it clicked. Then I felt unbeatable. The patterns were easy to understand, a bit harder to master. Then I was playing Smells Like Teen Spirit.
And the simile with playing guitar is no joke. I was chording the dash like I was playing a chord on an instrument. And I think this is kind of the thing with the controls. It has huuuuuuuuge Celeste vibes to them. And for me, a filthy casual without the muscle memory for these games… if it werent that I stuck with it a minute further I would’ve just said 0/10 it sucks.
Don’t give up. You’re gonna miss it.
The theme though… ok maybe I’m gonna interpret it more abstractly, but it felt like the inverse. The storm was the rage I had trying to play it, the calm was breezing through the levels having ascended into learning the ways of the Samurai.
please make the second pillar on the tutorial a tad shorter. That would’ve saved me a lot of anger.