Great job, a big golden axe fan.
I definitely want to play now as this is the biggest gift to Neo Geo fans.
Per your notes there are some minor bugs, the only thing I noticed is the death blow axe rotation animation frames when killing Death Adder. Layer priority issue with the pen and red writing on the map. Maybe some other issues on my aging Neo Geo AES(I did not see this on one long plays of the Neo Geo CD port on YouTube but did on others maybe emulation?), black line tile seem near back of animated eagle eye. this may help with other owners of aging hardware.
your https://h0ffman.itch.io/ links to an old X account @djh0ffman must have been a bad boy, with no Elon pardon ;)
was looking for your donation info.