This is a pretty good game jam game. It's quick and to the point. Very little opportunity for getting lost or doing the wrong thing. Even the little tutorial bits in the unique battle system were helpful. I especially appreciate that the enemies use a standard style of stances to make identifying the type of move I need to perform easy.
I also liked how the story comes back to that fateful moment and you get to see how each character contributed to the MC's death.
My 3 criticisms:
- I started the game and was told to go west. So I walked west and...hit an invisible wall. I then realized I needed to go down through the (admittedly obvious) gap in the gate and go west. Some sort of "go here" indicator would have helped that.
- There's a useless MP bar hanging out in the battle UI in every battle.
- Every battle skill takes highlighting the skill, choosing the skill category, then choosing the skill. Since every category has only 1 skill ever it feels like there's a redundant step.
Overall an impressive game. Good job!