When I saw this on discord called my attention and glad I could play it :)
I liked the gameplay and it’s creative to use different bullets in a game like this. There are a few things that I find that could make the game less fun, most of them are related to the restart of the game or when you die once and you keep playing in the same game with no refresh
One is that the glass bullets stay broken or if you put them in the same spot even after dying or changing the match, in my first time I broke 2 and in the next game after a game over, those stayed broke in the same spot, also you final score don't reset and stays the last one
The second enemy, the one who gets angry, stays angry if you play against him again, about this enemy, it’s funny because pretty much you have to do perfect shots to hit him due the way he is, which in some way I like
About the 1st enemy, I like the dodge he does, it gives him style but in some way that dodge makes a bug that if you shoot the same time it ends, you hit a perfect shot but he still does his attack. In one match, it made me lose all the extra rewards I was grinding from gold bullets, like it made it restart the count when I was close to 100 extra coins, but the next match happened the same but it’s like all that extra lost in the past match I gained back? It was a weird interaction with the dodge and the gold bullet
One thing I didn’t like at 1st was that once you die, you lose all the progress, which can be ok, but makes it a bit hard to face the last enemy because I had to grind the gold again to unlock some bullets and then be able to face a new enemy. But after a few tries I didn’t mind because in some way you risk all in order to win and because I found that I just need to do the 1st enemy once, then buy glass bullets, spam it, then change to deathly ones and in 3 matches, I can unlock again the last enemy with good bullets, so isn’t that bad honestly because you 1-2 shot the 1st enemy with those bullets haha
Which leads me to a point I really like about this game and it’s that, really portraits the theme of the jam, the effects of the bullets, the gameplay loop and the moment of the face off to pull off a perfect bullet, all gets together to really feel the risk in the game, which made me really like the game! :D
Also, at 1st I was very bad in the game but after some matches, I got the feeling and it felt like a fair game, you start to pull perfect shots and the bad ones don’t feel unfair, maybe the last enemy can be quick with the shield but didn’t feel bad, which I really like that design of the enemy, that repels the bullet and you get hit by it, but then happens the same with the dodge of the 1st enemy and in one match I stunned her and myself with the same bullet because I shot at the same time the shield ended
To finish this, I find a bit tedious the start of the game after a few runs, filling all the chambers with normal bullets at 1st it’s great because you are teaching the flow of the prep part, that you can pick bullets and put them in a specific order but, after a few runs, I would like to just click the box and fill the chambers because there isn’t another option to pick at the start and already know the flow of the game. Outside that, everything it’s great, the sfx, the mood of each match it’s great, from just seeing the sprites I can feel each character personality, the art it’s great, the gameplay as I said I really like it, everything feels excellent together, it reminds me of an old minigame of kirby that test your reaction but with more possibilities.
Oh also, you can infinitely stun the enemy, maybe it isn't the best play but you can clear any enemy this way, just need to hit a perfect shot.
Nice entry :)
