Hello!
I saw your game from Connor's monkey jam video and got interested. Played your game for a few (ehem) hours and it was great! I love the artstyle and the concept. It took me a while to develop a strategy to complete the game. From weapon choice(monkey king staff and snake bite leg guards, you the MVP..and also dart blowgun and primal boomerang. I have mixed feelings with stormcaller javelin), inventory allocation, timing (why does every item decay! even those I dont use haha). I would love to hear more about the lore and inspiration especially with the gems and why me (the monkey) is the last of it's kind there.
Feedback and suggestions:
1. Map generation takes a while to load. It gets a bit frustrating after dying the nth time.
2. I think the view initially doesn't make sense the first time but seeing the darkness as "pillars" and that you are looking at the surroundings from the top view made me appreciate the game better.
3. It would be nice to have armor in the game or at least increase the number of items you can equip since once you get all the gems, you have less inventory space to keep healing items . When I used range weapons, I don't really have to equip anything else to complete the game making the items more like baggage unless it's increasing health like the cool glasses.
4. Luck-boosting items actually do something else besides increasing the chance to dodge like random loot find maybe?
5. I don't see how agility helps. Maybe with running but both the primates and you still take one square movement even if you have agility-boosting items equip.
6. Non-range weapons should at least have a chance to stun a few turns. If you come face to face an orangutan or a gorilla without a range weapon, you'd lose.
7. Bat-spamming for weapon is tedious especially if there aren't any bats around that much
8. Would be nice to be able to combine duplicate weapons to increase the time you can use them instead of just throwing them to increase inventory space.
9. Adding sound effects of enemies of about to agro is appreciated.
10. Adding regeneration items to decrease healing time too
Again, thank you for making this game!