A wonderful and very polished game, I give it 5 stars in all categories!
It is really engaging and has some nice, surprising moments.
Both the sound and the graphic design create a great atmosphere.
Small things (like footprints and sounds) help a lot to bring the game to life.
There were just a few things that I'd like to point out:
- In the combat part of the game I encountered a bug. I was dashing through one of the rooms in laboratory when "Loading Error Failed to load: img/characters/!Bot_00_Broken_dash.png" message popped up. It was popping up every few seconds and blocked loading of the next room. Restarting the game helped.
- changing targets in battle wasn't very intuitive for me - left and up arrows switched the target to the lower enemy, and right/down arrows to the upper one. I feel like it would work better reversed.
- I think that putting EXP count in the same corner as the rest of the HUD would work better. I found that that number is shown on the screen only after defeating the Brute, I didn't see it earlier because of this.
Despite these few small things I don't hesitate to give it the highest rating, this game definitely deserves it. Really great job! Wishlisted. :)