Very polished entry! This has the most visible graphics out of all the 3d entries I have seen.
I really liked the use of luck in this game. It had me on my toes during combat, not knowing what the outcome would be. The overall feel is arcade-like and addicting.   

I found the maze to be disorienting and basically had to completely rely on the map to figure out where I was. Not sure if that was intentional or not - I could see it being either way. It felt very game boy in that way. I never ended up using the fairies when they spawned, but later in my run I found myself with just 2 health and was willing to sacrifice some luck to grab a bit of health. The fairies were gone... I think it could encourage the player to make decisions (sacrifice luck) or backtrack if they stuck around. But I could also see memorizing where they are and taking the chance before a hard section on repeat playthroughs as good design. It all depends on the goal - is the goal to keep players coming with repeat playthroughs? Or should they have a decent chance at beating the game the first time? The former is much more of a gameboy era design philosophy, where the latter is more in line with what players expect today.

I think the fact that I'm pondering these design questions speaks to the polish of this entry. Very engaging  and polished entry, nice job!

I liked the graphics and the combat system was unique. Im not sure if there is anyway to strategize since its very luck based but still managed to pray a couple bullets into existence and then got killed by the cthulu looking creature. 

That was a fun game!

I ended up out of ammo against the mindflayer at the very end, so spending a few turns praying against him was weirdly a pretty funny situation.

My only nitpick would be that I would have liked to see the currently-faced direction on the map, but that was just a QoL issue, so not too problematic.

Good job overall :)

The 3d effect is so cool in a GB game. I also like that the deeper you go, you encounter more difficult enemies. That tickles my exploration itch.

Praying is a clever mechanic to give you a chance to get you out of a pinch, rather than just dying when you are out of ammo or low on hp.

With a whole bunch of praying, I managed to beat it in my first attempt. Very nice game.

Wow! How polished! The art and character designs are quite goofy and charming, and the mechanics are mostly well-conveyed (except for the true extent of prayer's power. I only found out about prayer healing on my last run at the final boss). All-in-all, a good time!

Definitely feels like one of those old-school games where the main strategy is already knowing where you want to go and what you have to do, which the game is short enough to accommodate. As much as I really like the design and flavor of the secret character, I avoided doing that on my winning run. In my personal estimation, the damage you "have" to tank to get the [special item] is just not worth being able to keep an extra charm for the final boss.

While I liked most of the difficulty balancing, I think enemies being as unpredictable as the player and prayer might have been a bridge too far. It could just be a writing and framing issue, but with how much standing around the enemies end up doing, a monoclops doing 8 damage in 4 turns carries a distinct flavor of "unfair" in what is a relatively fair game. It's not really "Ah shucks, I missed!" so much as "Ah shucks, the enemy became uncharacteristically intelligent for an extended period of time!"

The soundtrack is nice and creepy, and the sound effects do a great job conveying the action. That said, there's a weird audio imbalance between the intro / ending music and the rest of the game; I got jump-scared by the louder ending music after winning!

Fantastic! Great work!

This is so much what the project I worked on wishes it could have been.

It was interesting playing the game and seeing how many things were approached similarly, even if most of the stuff in my project never got implemented.

If I open the WebGL player in a browser window on half my screen and don't fullscreen it, it crops off the right edge of the gui. For a second I thought it was a bug in the game, but the HTML padding on the player seemed the primary culprit, preventing the player from occupying a little more space.

I'll be honest, when I saw the progress of this in the gbjam discord. I thought it wouldn't be something that you'd see on a gameboy. Man was I wrong, this would feel right at home on the portable console. Surprisingly in-depth and long experience too. I especially appreciate the old school dungeon crawler quirks too. Loved that the enemies all made different sounds, but damn, they're some lucky sluggs compared to my unluck.

This is just such a well-made game that it's difficult to even say much about it. There's a whole extra layer of strategy in how luck is handled during gameplay, as you're encouraged to expend your actions and resources wisely. Congratulations!

The only minor gripes I could even list would be: First, both normal doors as well as gates that can be opened could be displayed on the map, though at this resolution and number of colours I don't even know how you'd accomplish that. Speaking of colours, I wish that the game would swap palettes whenever you enter a different "zone" (as in, an area after a gate) so navigation is a little easier.

Fantastic job

Loved this game, one of my favorites of the jam so far. I played for quite a while. The vibe was great, the navigation was fun, the art and monsters were awesome. The music was cool as well. Loved the pray mechanic, and could keep clinging on to life for much longer than I thought. Was consistently surprised at new enemies and mechanics being introduced.

Loved the font! (haha)

Great work on this, your team got a lot done in a short time!

Nicely polished RPG. A lot of complexity went in here, and during a jam, impressive.
Very nicely presented, you made everything readable and functional in such low res. 

Congrats!

Ahah, yup me too, didn't read enough to see there was a map :D Bummer I ended blocked in a fight without any more ammo, maybe I missed something. But otherwise what a well rounded entry, super cool game !