Another game that deserves to win, the spinning around the arena mechanic was a thing I wanted to put in one of the bosses. we had to cut it out due to not knowing how to implement it in time, we wanted to do something like the first Klonoa boss for that one.
I love that the first boss has a touch hitbox because it's the way he attacks being melee and stuff, but the penguin doesn't have one, its a small thing but shows the thought that went into the game design, there are tons of things that I can describe that makes this game very good but if I listed I would stay here for a while.
a problem I found was when you are going in a direction and just tap the other direction the player will continue facing that way, making running then attacking a bit awkward at times, and the penguin fire seems to have a bigger hitbox than one would think.
great art, music and sounds!
rooting for you guys! good luck!