The art direction is really good, the cutscene artwork especially worked for me. The bosses' attacks feel very hard to avoid and block, but I liked that their patterns are pretty on theme.
Once you get used to the controls it's way better but the character's movement and attacks feel somewhat sluggish and I think the attack action is not completely related to the animation (I found out that you can spam it although the animation doesn't seem to follow).
Overall, nice job on the submission though! Great luck!