Love the atmospheric music / sounds in this game!
Also, fantastic pixel art, the cats face is amazing! <3 Great concept to have 9 lives which are borrowed from the cat.
The intro text is quite slow. It would be nice if there was a “next” option to speed it up. But, the font is a good choice and the color changing based on who is narrating works well.
The movement felt a bit slow and I found myself needing to wait for the camera to move if I wanted to navigate somewhere quickly. Otherwise, the controls were solid.
The free looking camera felt quite good!
Although combat was easy enough for me to get through, I didn’t quite understand what I was doing. Sometimes I have 3, 4, or 5 choices and I don’t know why. I would have loved some kind of visual feedback to indicate if I should be blocking / breaking. It seemed that no matter what I did, I would always lose at least one heart during a round in combat.
Why is this basement so big and terrifying! ;) At first, I thought the characters were over reacting about the rats because there were far worse enemies in the basement… but then I found the Rat King… horrifying pixel art! Okay… just reached “The Yellow King?” (O o O) – Nice work.
One bug I found: If you engage an enemy but are not facing them, you cannot move the camera to face them.
Also, it would be great to have a “Try Again” button after you die.
I really enjoyed this one!