Nice game! I enjoyed the simplicity of this classic style adventure game. The controls felt good and navigating the environment was pretty straight-forward.  I enjoyed the inclusion of the currency and optional upgrades. This feature allows for grinding upgrades incase the player finds an enemy/boss too challenging. I felt the difficulty of this game wasn't too overwhelming, which allowed me to experience the entire game without any frustration. One thing I did not like was the length of the hit cooldown on enemies. This was especially noticeable for the final boss, where you have to wait 2-3 seconds in-between hits. I also suggest adding SFX for jumping and perhaps the wall-slide ability. Overall, this is a great entry!

The controls feel excellent, and the main character is really funny! I did have a great time playing it, the level design was good. I liked the fact that you get rewarded for fighting enemies, and it does not feel like farming at all. Overall, it is really well put together.

Maybe, to add some criticism, the background feels a bit too dead for my taste. Given the feel of the game, some simple background or, if you did not want any because of the classic theme, a more lively color would be appreciated (not in the cave, the cave is just fine).

Finished at 100% good game i really like the feeling of progression.

Wow! This game is so complete in every sense! First of all, the theme fits so awesome. Just starting the game and hearing the first notes of the song, took me back to the classic computer games. The game feels very agile, and everything gave cool feedback. It's cool that it's about collecting coins because collecting them is very rewarding.

The variety of enemies is interesting and I liked the combination of getting rewarded for killing them, but they being slow enough to ignore, made it more relevant choosing when to fight.

The changing of scenery is also very cool. Moving between biomes changes the music and enemies, traps, so that ties really well together the classic theme with the mechanics of metroidvanias.

The difficulty was good, and the skill expression as well. The map system was amazing, overall this game is full of details that make for a very complete experience. If I had to choose something to improve, I'd make the text more responsive. Sometimes it feels a bit slow, or not clear when it responds to input and when it doesn't.

immediately got Castlevania II / Zelda II vibes from this. Overall I had quite a good time. The music was simple but catchy, I particularly liked the cave and temple music - I was nodding my  head along to the tun but still felt that ominous dread. The controls felt good, jumps were tough but usually fiar. Collecting coins always feels good, and the chest coin fountains were particularly satisfying. I tended to skip the weaker enemies and just focus on whichever enemy would erupt with the most coins. :D 

Some pieces of feedback:

- I really liked the Stone of Returning combined with the shop mechanic. It made it super convenient to go back, purchase upgrades, and get back into the action. That said, I think the design would have felt a bit more Metroidvania-y if the town had served as more of a hub zone that you  returned to naturally rather than teleporting. As it was there was very little in the way of backtracking, especially in the latter half of the game (which, given its distance, I understand why the Stone was necessary).

- I don't know if it was a purposeful decision or not, but having variable jump height would have been nice. There were some rooms where I'd launch myself into ceiling fire or ceiling spikes because I couldn't control the height of my jump. 

- On the wall grab, I think it still needs a little something. The character's jump is so high that waiting for velocity to slow down means I could be pressing against a wall for quite awhile before I'll ever grab it (and inadvertently jumping straight into enemies when I wanted to grab the wall below them). I think some secondary checks around time pressed against the wall or something might help with this - it's really just because of the extreme character jump height though.

Oh yeah, and before I forget, the final boss was a good time. Once I figured out the safe zones I made short work of him, and the ending cut scene / post-credits scene were *chef's kiss*. Very good job!

Quite a funny little game, seems to me like you nailed everything.

The different areas increase difficulty very well, the crisp controls compensate for the close combat that is always more risky, there is reward for exploration (so much that I had to go back to see what were in the rooms that I hadn't explored in my first playthrough), combat was well done, and a good dose of laughs at the end.

If I had one thing to say, but it is just me nitpicking, it would be good to have an indicator of health on the final boss just to know if you're halfway through the boss or almost finishing it. But that's just a detail and does not change my rating at all.

Congratulations!

That was fun! You kept your scope small (or "classic") and just polished what you had really well. The pixel art is cute, I especially enjoy the bounciness of the slime enemies. Movement feels good, especially once you get some upgrades. Combat is simple, but getting freedom over what stats to upgrade keeps it engaging throughout the game. Most of the critiques I have are rather nitpicky, but here they are anyway: I wish enemies dropped their gold sooner so I didn't have to wait for their death animation to finish, some enemies are a bit too close to screen transitions so I bumped into them when going between zones, and I wish there was a clearer "point of no return" before the final boss, because I finished the game with 40/41 rooms seen, and I never got to back to explore that 1 room.

Oh yeah, and the ending made me laugh out loud.

Very solid job!

I really appreciate the commitment to the theme, to the extent of having the controls in a manual in the description rather than the actual game. There's quite a lot of attention to detail in this regard that really brings this theme to life in this game, and the game is just so cleanly executed in its vision, that there really isn't much to critique. This is like a perfect example of what a jam should be, a concise, cleanly executed vision. As someone who's guilty of going overboard in terms of ambition a lot when it comes to game jams, a game like this is a really strong example of what can be done when you just have a strong and simple vision. 

Neat game! Don't have a lot to say, the cutscenes were very comedic, especially liked the ending lol. 
One thing maybe, the backgrounds were a little repetetive which would make it hard to navigate if it wasn't for the map. Loved the remaining art though, super simple and sweet!

AWESOME! I got a surprise for you too Dan... I made a youtube playthrough for what my screen share can handle. Was excited to see some other developers in here I remember from previous game-jam! I gave this a 4/5 on first play though. Will upload the short play-though here soon! Great job. Simple and profound games here Dan! 

Great job

I really enjoyed this. the knight is quaint and has character. Great work!