I recognized the visual style from The Karmic Scale, so I was very excited when I got to this one in the jam. I wasn't disappointed at all! The classic-style platformer plays relatively smoothly, with some fun extras to look for throughout the main level. The natural writing fits nicely as well, telling a cute short story with Reimu.

I did find fairies somewhat hard to hit due to Reimu's aim, and yellow bullets are especially hard to see in the open outdoor areas. Dialogues also don't stop fairy attacks, so it can be awkward to come out of them. Auto-pausing the game world in these moments might be a good fix.

On top of the good music, the visuals themselves are also colorful, shiny, and overall excellently presented. It shows a lot of personality, and I'm enjoying seeing the style develop. (The fumos help. :3 )

Good high-effort jam game! It feels like just enough content for a jam game of this type and it strikes a nice balance between the boss fights and platforming, which in my experience is quite hard to do for a shorter jam (it's a lot of work to do both bosses and stages!). The dash-renewing crystals taking away momentum is a bit rude, but clearly the levels were designed around it and you get used to it. Same with the hitboxes on Alice's sine-wave attack, but the checkpoint is very forgiving and the dialog only playing once shows that the developer anticipated potentially frustrating elements and did a good job mitigating them. I think the Alice fight difficulty is just right, but it would probably have been better if the difficulty was due to something more interesting than the sine-wave wavelength and dash-distance being somewhat of a tight fit. Some of the jumps from high platforms end up being a bit of a leap of faith and this could perhaps have been mitigated by well-placed coin trails to guide the player, but the game is again very forgiving with checkpoints so it's not a major source of frustration and the player can just figure it out be experimenting. End screen:

Hey people: *pulls out megaphone* USE THE DASH IT HAS  INVUL FRAMES

The game is simple and good, I think confirmed action gamers eat well with this one.
Just, can we minimalize or relocate the HUD so that the dekafumo doesn't provide camouflage to the last boss?

I have beaten your gauntlet. Why was it so hard. I enjoyed my time with it but holy shit that was demanding. I enjoyed the bosses a lot, think they've got more going for them than the stage parts, but daaaaaamn, that was difficult. I enjoyed my time though. Was fun, but also holy shit that was hard. Maybe make reimu's basic shot shoot wider or farther? one of those would make the fairies in the exploration section less pain. Fun bosses. Damn.

I'm getting pleb filtered by the Alice fight and will let you know how I feel once I'm done with that.