itch.io

First of all, the artstyle is wonderful, and unlike some games with higher resolution art, the fact the environment is based on grid tiles was never too jarring. The game itself plays well, and the character designs are interesting. However, there were a few things I think could be improved upon. This is obviously inspired by Zelda 1, but I think it wears that on its sleeve a bit too much. Having the map and enemy designs be so similar makes me feel like I'm playing the same game at times. I think having different enemies that play differently from Z1 in particular would be a huge improvement. I think the walking sound effect doesn't match up with the actual walk very well, if you had it sound like a single small step was happening instead, it would sound much much better.  The tarot card tutorials were extremely neat, but I feel like having that kind of information dump on the player at the very start is too much, and the tutorial you have built-in to the house is much more intuitive. I hope you can repurpose those card graphics somehow, or keep them under a controls option in a menu. I think you have a solid foundation though, and I hope to see the game improve and iterate upon  itself in the future.