Cute visual style, even in little things like the battle UI buttons. The use of elements with creature capture mechanics reminds me of an old PSX game called Jade Cocoon, although that was a bit more Pokemon-like… haven’t seen anything like it in a while, anyway, so that’s cool. All you need is a little garden where you can feed and raise them or something!
Great music track, but a notable lack of sound effects, which really affects the feel.
A few more little nitpicks:
- All that intro text should really be typed faster!
- Agreed with others that movement should be a few times faster than it is.
- UI is a massive pain to work on, I know, but you should definitely have a standard Esc button or X somewhere to close menus – you can actually open your item and shop menus at the same time. I managed to confuse myself just trying to close them.
- I also can’t see who I’m healing when I’m in the items menu.
I think the little things like that add up, and are what you need most, compared to things like content or balancing fixes, but congrats on the unique submission.