The aesthetics are spot on. Easily one of this games greatest strengths.
Only critique is the bullet’s directions sometimes change erratically. Other than that, very nice difficulty curve!
The match-3 gameplay felt really nice. There were good animations and feedback with executing matches. I’m also a fan of the Yokai art!
My only gripe is that the exploration, “Dungeon Crawler” stuff felt pretty disjointed from the experience. I didn’t see any impact from Match-3 games in the “Dungeon Crawler” scene. I think the idea of mixing these genres might be possible but there’s gotta be more impact from one “mode” to the other.
Great job!
I think the controls are very well tuned and I like the atmosphere and music. I had only a couple issues. The UI gets in the way of seeing branches. I would suggest making the UI smaller and/or moving it to the top of the screen. Last, I'm not sure if it was intentional but it doesn't seem like there is a penalty for hitting branches.
Otherwise, I like the way it turned out. Good luck with your future projects!