ART
Great as usual. The art and animations for spawn, enemies, and totems are good. :)) I loved the itch background with game art of all characters.
I could not actually see the enemy attack motions clearly.
First Try
I jumped right in without reading the description and still got to world three. for beginner the game felt pretty good and interesting, the exploring is great
After that, I pressed the escape button and then saw the description.
after playing a few times, the highest world I got to is only four ( i thought of taking a screenshot and died :) ). the shift key is a great help for running away with low health.
PROTOTYPE
For a prototype, the game is pretty good. the controls felt good.
spawning as a unique creature is great. the overall color change is good after respawn it feels simple but creates a different environment.
BUTS,
If the player reaches much higher levels sudden change in all numbers may feel bad. going for three totems in all the worlds might feel boring if the game is worked on.
if it aims to be an endless exploring adventure, I think it might require some other parameter for the player to hold on to, like a very polished scoring system and statistics of how many enemies killed, totems collected, jars or barrels destroyed, distance walked it makes every run great. the variety of statistics this game could provide are almost unlimited.
(maybe going from worlds with 1 totem to worlds with 5 or 6 totems would create greater exploration feels)
After dying at 2nd/3rd worlds, I felt rushed and tried to go for totem directly, and getting it first and running felt pretty good (might be great for speed runs)
The enemy health indication felt really needed as the few enemies take more hits than others. the enemy movements are good for luring one by one and guarding the totem. ( enemies swarming player if he reaches the totem would be great, and if the totem is destroyed maybe they run to other totems in the world to help their kind, killing enemies off after destroying all totems would be great loot)
