Sup man! i really like your game, i played it after shaun's livestream. I'm trying game dev myself too, just starting tho.
About the game. I played until the point of the owl saying something about shorcuts, then i went to the spawn point to refill the waterglass and restore health and then i was so tired of dying that i stoped playing, i will play a bit more later. Maybe your point was to make a darksouly game and thats why is so difficult? I couldnt get the hang of the dodging. Also i never knew when the "will-less" would atack, maybe add an aura will help? like the sprite emmiting a red aura when its about to atack, idk... i don think i advanced much in the game.
Also, at the pont when the owl told me that i could use the dodge to jump over pits to cross them i smashed the barrels that were next to it and ended in a place with a rock golem that basically one-shoted me...maybe I shouldn't have gone there, should i? but i could... so i did xD
Anyway, great game. I will continue playing it. Godspeed.