The beginning was honestly kind of rough, I hate to be the simon of reviewers here too, but it was really clustered, messy, confusing, I had no idea what was happening, little to no context of what was going on or the characters, and it feels like I'm supposed to have played valkyrie stars games or have context about who these characters are and what they are talking about some of the time. A few folks in the jam had a thing with characters where folks need to remember that the people playing don't know who your characters are yet, they aren't going to understand dialogue referencing other games or things, there is nothing wrong with loving your characters or games and I've seen other people make cameos or easter eggs, but most of this game I didn't know what was going on or what anyone was talking about and some random dialogue that I just didn't understand, or made me feel like i was supposed to know something I didn't. The mapping, art and sprites are very cool though! I did 3 star, but if anyone things this is unfair I will change my review!
I'll probably change mine anyways if hawk has a better experience than me or if he can help understand it better/chat.
I edited my review based on hawks/