Great beginning, excellent puns and gameplay tricks, however, disappointing main mechanics. Do not get me wrong, all is perfect except it is a bit cliche. Or maybe it's not super original to me, but it is not important. It was a great experience. Maybe if you could continue on that and add more surprising things in the sorcerer's workshop. Just remember to make the things more and more weird, difficult and confusing, so the player really feels like it is a black magic. Would be a 10/10 metroidvenia spin-off if you add more items. Just a thought. Well done.
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Great feedback, Taberu. I completely agree about the main mechanics. I spent wayy too much time trying to get the narrative mechanics in and ended up running out of time for the more "gameplay" aspects. I had a bunch of enemies and weapons on my list that I just simply ran out of time to implement. Even as I was building it I kept coming up with ideas for whacky magical artifacts that would make the gameplay more interesting.
Thanks again for your thoughts on the game :)