That was really cool! The amount of polish was very impressive. Nice clean pixel art and good animations, enemy variety and overall vibe. The gameplay was a little confusing to me as I didn't immediately understand what effect being hit had, why shooting the shotgun felt so unreliable, what the pie bar above my head meant or why my attack kept changing when I picked an upgrade. It all eventually came together though so no real complaints!
I think the controls could be tightened up a tiny bit to _feel_ more responsive even though there's nothing functionally wrong with them. A little negative sound when first pressing the fire button when not able to fire or other small details like that.
All together an excellent entry and really quite fun. Great work!
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Oh, the sound when pressing the button while cooling is a really good suggestion, you are right. And a tutorial would've helped with that initial confusion... not adding a proper tutorial has been a problem of mine for too long now, I really should've learned this lesson 😅
Really happy that you enjoyed the pixel art! Normally I only code the games, and a buddy of mine does all the artwork, you know. Our best games were made like this. However, lately life has been really eating up our free time, so I tried to draw some things and here we are... well, just a random story haha thanks for the feedback!!