A very unique combat mechanic and quite humorous. I ended up "preloading" my chords and just hitting the last key i the sequence when engaging the mob. I -didn't- do that with the dragon and died :( 

Enjoyed the roguelike upgrades in between floors, was happy that I also found a merchant just when I was wondering what the gold is for. 

Was a bit unforgiving in the sense that the mobs dealt a lot of damage and rather quickly while you fiddled with the sequence of chords.

Solid entry! Very easy to figure out the casting system. Not sure I ever really figured out what beats what without the book eventually just showing it to me. But, perhaps that was by trial and error.

Thanks for making this! I really enjoyed it.

You can watch my playthrough here: https://youtu.be/0s6r7m4eOU8

Ambitious for the timescale but I liked where you were going with the mockery and the no-AI gets a bonus point from me!

All graphics and audio handmade? That is so cool. I second another comment, that you should ditch the hold Shift key stuff. In my first attempt I did not read your instructions and well, did not hold shift. On my second attempt I missed feedback, when I hit the enemies with my spells. And the font is very small on a 4k screen. Movement was fine, maybe a bit clicky, having to press the keys for every step. Interesting concept, maybe some experimentation would be cool. Like having to find out the spell key combinations or even create my own spells somehow.

 Managed to complete it on second try. I loved the idea!

 Beggar was supplying me all the way - god bless his poor soul. Cool UI (it wasnt aligning with my 2k resolution but i got the idea) spellbook, or should i say... poem book? Liked the upgrade screen and how inner parts of notes are glowing on cursor hover. Cool silly sounds on spell cast, portrait changes on damage - little details that make it shine.

 Of course, its lacking some feedback/effects on taking dealing damage (for the first time i hoped that spells have further range), and i would have liked if different spells were more... different. Like different ranges or areas. Fast(short) low damage close spell, slow(longer) spell with longer range or bigger damage. Without these it felt repetative. But it was 9 days of course, cant complain.

 Just a sweet idea, and you had bravery to try it! I have nothing but respect for such things. 
 Thanks for the opportunity to play 

Beat the dragon! The controls are certainly clunky. Maybe lock WASD to movement and arrow keys to cast? Also QE usually are used to strafe, so the spells should be on 123 key. The combat is great, frantically pacing back and forth to complete the spell is fun! The incantation sound is hilarious, too!

The Dragon defeated!

I really struggled with the controls at first, more precisely holding SHIFT, just WASD for movement and Arrow Keys for incantation would have worked better for me.

I eventually had fun. The perspective and movement are good, I like that during the few first floors the environments get more sinister as you descend and I like the portrait of the character and the look of the enemies. The incantation sounds are hilarious. Combat system is fine including the significance of the elemental system, I like that you can buy strong items from the wandering merchant which rewards fighting instead of fleeing. Finally the game ends with a cool boss fight which is always welcome.

Thanks for sharing!

Love your graphics and the concept is really unique, I did find the controls a little difficult at first but I got the hang of it quickly.  I wish there was an animation when you finish your spell that shows it hitting the enemy and visually indicates if it was the ideal type for that creature or not and then some floating damage text.  Nice work!

great twist on the genre and well executed. its a bit like the Ocarina of Time. The idea of casting spells using commands has soooo much potential. For now, I would have liked the combat to be slower (my old hards are not able to input the spells quick enough) or difficulty to start lower and ramp up.

gotta have the fasted hand in wild west to beat the pig! I love the gameplay, it's unique!

Victory!
Hard to master. Feels like the brain have hard time handling the inputs when it has to work around the QE not being turn, and AD being along with the Shift held while doing attacks, and trying to dodge the enemy, its like overload :)

Not all beggars are nice.... 

I wish the bestiary told you what the monsters were weak to in addition to what they're strong against. I'm too stupid to remember. I also wish I knew what sick roasts I was laying down on these ugly guys. Great concept!

I like the concept a lot and I played through the full dungeon. I would have like to have seen the different songs have different effects whether it was a little more range, or status effects. Having 3 damage types that different enemies are weak too just undercuts the "You're a bard!" feeling that the game built towards with the combat minigame.

Combat system was really unique. I started queuing up most of a spell before an enemy stepped into the grid space in front of me so that I could quickly cast it and move away again. I did have to read the page description to figure out what I was doing wrong at first and I had to hold shift for the arrow keys as well. Web build worked without any issues!