This was a cute game. The art style is constant in its sense of humor and it follows a standard theme of power or control. I had to beat all ends, and die in all ways, to see how the game would react.
The dialogue was, also, definitely this game’s main attraction. Although I do feel that the humor was rather forced in some areas, it was consistent and good for a game jam.
The fact that you had an option’s settings, however, is great! Not many game jam games have time to even implement that, even if it’s mostly overlooked. Great job!
I do have a few criticisms. For one, I do not know how the paring works exactly, but I do know it is hard. And, since the boss doesn’t take extra damage (from what I know) out of parrying, and the fact that you aren’t even guaranteed to hit the boss after a parry, it’s pretty much useless. I ignored it 90% of the time, besides when I was trying to be cool.
The dialogue reset each time I wanted to replay the game/died was also a bit annoying. It might be better to break up your scenes a little more so that “resetting” the entire scene wouldn’t perform this behavior.
Speaking of scenes, I would recommend you attach those vine spikes to the game scene, instead of the boss, so they don’t move while the boss moves. In addition, the telegraph of those spikes was a circle, but their actual hitbox is a full-on cylinder, which is a bit misleading.
Those projectiles the boss fires also appear from nowhere, leading to unfair undodgable attacks sometimes. Meanwhile, the boss’s melee attack was dispositionally unfair above than below, and honestly just felt consistent rather than fun to dodge.
To be exact, the entire boss was just “go around and around while shooting” to me. It’s not really difficult, but more tedious, especially with the absurd amount of health given.
Also, there was no feedback to the player whenever they hit a boss. It was rather dull and unrewarding for something that will take up 95% of a player’s playtime.
I am also disappointed that both dialogue options for the evil route game the same ending… But, well, that’s game jams for you.
Nevertheless, as I said, the game has its humor, its art is good, and the theme is there. It’s a great game jam game. Thank you for sharing.