One of the most fun games I’ve played so far in just pure story and references, it was a treat to see all the small gags. While I haven’t played Undertale admittedly, the gameplay was fun and I like the spin in the Raora battle where you collect the coins (assuming that’s new). Even if the game wasn’t fully complete, I still got a lot to enjoy out of the gameplay style and general aesthetic.

Some of the attacks seemed to have some unforgiving hitboxes. Kiara’s flame attack was already mentioned but I swear the chattino wave also kept hitting me in places that I thought it shouldn’t have. Kiara’s explosion attack being unreactable was also not great but you can at least just tank it at the cost of one heart.

I also noticed a bug where the battle menu is interactable underneath the gacha screen, so clicking on the battle menu area while the gacha screen is up can send you into enemy attack phase while the screen is still covered, for example. That happened to me once and confused me as I heard the audio in the background despite being on a different screen. While not the same bug, a related issue I had was being able to interact with the battle menu as soon as the combat phase ended, which was a jarring cut. It is a polish thing mainly and I understand you didn’t have time for it, but I would prefer the menu transition finishing first before you can interact with it.

Great work overall though, I’d love to see a finished version! It’s cool you put in a mention of all your planned ideas.

I really like your entries to these jams, they're so silly

Still haven't gotten around to playing Undertale myself, but I know about how the combat system works, and I think its awesome that you stayed true to it, with the hostile vs pacifist solutions to fighting. That in itself, with the combat that's already present in the game, feels like enough to pad out a full submission, honestly.

I really liked the goofy reactions and videos on the side of the combat box, and since the combat wasn't crazy complex, they weren't super distracting, which is good. I didn't get to see if Cece had a death sprite, but Gigi doing the Family Guy death pose got me good.

Would be awesome to see you come back and add what you had plotted out at the end of the game, but all in all good work!

I like the ideas, but I think the combat misses some pretty crucial aspects of Undertale's gameplay and also bullet-hell's more broadly: there's supposed to be some way to see attacks before they can hit and always some way to avoid them. The first attack, with the bird flying straight at the player doesn't seem to have any way to avoid it quickly enough, even from clear across the arena, and after that most of the attacks have some aspect that can hit the player instantly. Separately, I think the two revolving bell shapes were unfair as well, due to hitting in spots that didn't match the visuals.

One other thing, is Sandalphon a reference to Shadowverse, and if so, didn't of them actually use an evo deck?

Noticed a few bugs before the first battle, the first thing is that you can still control Gigi in the background even while a battle is going on.

The other one is that when the Bird starts an attack you will always receive 1 hit of damage no matter what

I'll probably check it back after the grace period, looks interesting