Pretty nice and challenging game and as someone else mentioned, it DOES remind me a bit of ghostrunner xD
Nontheless, there are still a few things I would like to point out since these kinda made the gameplay a bit whacky:
- Depending on where gigi is currently standing, sometimes i do wanna just launch straight forward, but its really hard to aim since gigi blocks the whole view. What you could do is that the camera zooms in besides gigi to give the player a little more view of where they aim
- I had no issues with the stains oneshotting you, but later on after reclaiming the artifact there were quite a big number of stains on the way back which were over time more annoying than challenging. you can't possibly keep track of every single bullet and everything also one-shotting you WILL frustrate players over time. My recommendations would be either reducing the number or making that if you dash into a direction, you block/destroy bullets in front (you still can be hit from sides, behind or somewhere else)
that also brings me to the next issue which happened quite frequently. Blocking/destroying Bullets would fix this instantly though. And thats the frequency of the attacks from the stains correlated to your launch speed. Many times I launched myself at stains and last second they barely get a bullet through and since i was in front of them there was no chance to evade that. This will also frustrate people if that happend frequently especially since defeating the stains is a requirement to progress further.
While I was also suggestion reducing the number of the stains in the endgame, since that would make some passages too easy I would rather increase the speed of the stains chasing you back. That would get pressure into the players and mistakes can be punishing. This would still spice up the difficuilty and make the game challenging but still fun instead of frustrating. While we aren't removing all stains but rather reducing the numbers so bullets will still come your way.
Well enough ranting I do think this game has big potential to be a solid and fun game after some polishing xD