Yes, that mechanic wasn't ever explained, and didn't really get tested well before the jam ended, so I am sorry about that. To explain it retroactively though, the top 5 green bars by your health represent your attack charges. Every attack uses one charge, and takes a certain amount of time to recharge per attack. A slash is 1.5 seconds, a shield bash I think is 3, an arrow is 10, etc. A failed parry will lose you all your attack charges for 2 seconds (Which I suppose could be used to exploit longer charges, recharging an arrow attack faster). A successful parry will recharge all of your attack charges. So a personal strategy of mine was to rapidly use the secondary sword attack 4 times, then switch to shield and parry once to recharge, then repeat.

Based on what other players have said, this mechanic was particularly unintuitive for the bow. It felt like the bow was just not working, when in fact they often used all of their attack charges, not knowing that they even existed. It should have been explained, it should have been balanced better, and there should have been more visual/audio cues to communicate the mechanic to the player.

Anyways, thank you so much for playing our game, and thank you for the feedback! While I am not working on this game anymore, I am applying feedback from this game to other projects!

Thank you for your kind words! I am the artist here and i felt that simply the peasant as a human wouldnt be special enough,  so i proposed the pie and my team agreed :D Most importantly i had fun drawing the sprites. I am glad people like my Pie.

Yeah I wanted to avoid a wall of text to tell the player how to play, but consequently some mechanics weren't easy to understand lol. For parrying specifically, there is a yellow sparkle animation that plays before an enemy attacks, and you want to parry at the end of the sparkle animation. The parry is a 0.25 second timing window, if you fail you are disarmed temporarily, but if you succeed, all of your attack cooldowns are reset. My strat when playing was to spam the sword stab 4 times, then use my 5th attack charge to parry an attack, then spam 4 more stabs and parry again. Unless enemies were further away and required the bow. Thank you for your feedback, and thank you for playing

Thank you for playing our game! The pie moving quicker was to give the player some more space, but i do agree it would be better to limit the speed so the goblins stay in view.

I agree with your criticism about the gameplay needing tuning, for some people it was too hard, and some mechanics like weapon charges weren't explained to the player. However, the moving faster through those sections was intentional. My thought was I can have sections with excessive power ups where it almost becomes a shooting gallery, you need to try and collect as many power ups as you can before the hoard catches up, so you are prepared to fight them. This was intentional, but that doesn't mean it was fun for everyone lol. I think there is a more fun game to be made with these mechanics, if given more time for development, but I also don't think our team will continue developing this project. It worked for the jam, and time to move on to a new project. But feedback is appreciated for future games at least!

Thank you so much!

Thank you!

Thank you for playing our game! I just couldnt help but add something dumb to it and a pie was exactly what it needed.

I agree on the combat needing some tuning. Unfortunately, I was the only person who had a chance to play test it, and as the person who made the game I am not a good sample for a new player. I tried to do what I thought would be best for a new player, but ultimately I need new player to tell me what's best for them lol. Thank you for playing