Guess I can! 😎 Keep shop open all the time gang and S saw is a trap!
First few tries I though the SOS was unbeatable but didn't I didn't falter. Holy heck those things are bullet sponges.
Nice to see a jam entry with a real focus on polish and juice. Love it. All around very polished and cohesive look and feel. Of course the super limited color palette brings a downside of not that easily spotting enemies and so on. Bringing an extra accent color for friendlies for example would of course alleviate that.
The sound scape was awesome too. Some of the sound effects felt a bit thin lacking that punching oomph to keep up with the pumping music. Not bad by any means but lacked that extra fist in your face treatment that you had in the particle effects and so on.
The control scheme felt very weird at first but I got used to it. And the dual nature of having shooting and moving be the same really worked. Especially so when the SOS appeared and wen't all danmaku on your ass. You really had to prioritize dodging but not forget to align yourself so that you were still damaging the boss.
The pacing felt a bit off. There was a huge delay on the start and usually between enemies too. Was this to accommodate for shopping? I just kept the shop window open at all times since it was so awkward to open and close it (hotkey would have been sweet). You could also slow down time when shopping to get rid of those extra delays. Those really felt bad when you had nothing to shop and just had to wait. It's never fun.
The shop limits felt a bit arbitrary too. Why not allow more saws for example? Would cool to be able to go full on balls to the wall bonkers. The fire rate especially caps way too fun. There isn't really much to shop for as around ten speed is probably more than enough and the saw for example just knocks coins around and never seems to do any meaningful damage. That on top of making it look more confusing and getting sniped by its baby brother enemy variants.
Good job!
