As others have said, this game's scope and artwork is very impressive. It's unusual to have to read what is essentially a manual before playing, rather than an in-game tutorial, so that may be a turnoff to some people. It was not for me.

I was not expecting the game to be so immediately challenging - the very first level I dropped into resulted in being ganked by three mermaids at once. The mermaid's attack reverses your controls, so that situation wound up being very difficult to escape.

The concept of upgrading your weapons with a grid to create flowers is a really neat way to do weapon upgrades. If you decide to create another game like this/expand on this game, I'd love to see that concept again.

The art is also very impressive. Eight different visual options for six different slots on your character, plus the multiple tilemaps, plus the enemies, icons, gui...And that's not even getting into the fact that there are bosses and unique boss fights, that each enemy has their own movement/attacking patterns...

Everything about this project impresses. Very nice work!

This game might be the one that impressed me the most in this jam gameplaywise! 

I was a little confused on how the inventory and weapons systems worked initially, but as soon as I figured it out I realised  this game is special.

To be able to customise the effect of your weapon, while having so many different weapons to use and it all just working so well is really amazing to see in a jam game.

The art and music is also beautiful and makes for a great experience!

What an engaging result for a game made in two weeks! Bravo! The visuals and animations were stellar and very satisfying to look at!

After reading the controls I decided to just jump in, see where things take me and read the FAQ, if I needed it. But turns out I didn't :)
I found the weapon management, flower management and  inventory management quite thought through and easy to understand. The only part that was a bit fiddly was trying to move a flower within a weapon while my inventory was full. It would have been a little easier if I had at least been able to at least lift it, instead I found myself storing flowers I didn't want to throw away in a weapon I didn't use, then going back to optimize my actual weapons.
A lot of the items ended up sitting unused, mostly because waiting for the effects to go away wasn't too much of a problem.

The different areas all brought something unique and changed up the enemy's attacks nicely, even though there were only a limited amount.
It would have been helpful if the portal had a special icon on the map, since very often it ended up being not too far away from where I started the stage- but I usually explored the whole stage and sometimes struggled to find it again. Usually it was recognizable by the shape it made on the map- but at least once it turned out I had headed for a puddle in the wall, haha. 

I liked the creativity of the bosses and that they werten't all just "hit them till their down". Especially the second one was memorable. I unfortunately seemed to hit a wall by the end- maybe it was a problem with the web version? - but I beat (?) the fourth boss and was suddenly thrown to a zoomed out view of the first map- unable to do anything anymore.

Nothing can beat my bouncing, almost endless, blood-sucking blueberries, I'm sure! Someday I shall get back to this and prove it! And if not that, then I will come back to try out all the other weapons I decided against this run :)

what an ambitious game! I think I didn't understood everything but it was fun wandering around in this world, and then I found a boss fight, but I was so weak with my little flower stick xD I really liked the setting, and the overall vibe! GG!

Game was really ambitious and I respect you guys for it. We already talked on Discord about a few issues due to time constraints, but I think the overall layout is fun! The main struggles were an in-game tutorial, control schemes readily available, quality of life stuff to make sure the game is easy for people who may get easily distracted (me). If this game were made into a really well polished, short experience (Demo) it'd work perfectly for a game jam! We aren't expecting full games after all. I like the idea and this can be something that can be pursued further. 

How I approach it personally, is I setup a designated timeframe for all the content, gameplay mechanics, stuff I want to add to make it more engaging and fun, then a time purely dedicated to user experience. Does the tutorials make sense? Is it too easy to skip the tutorial? (I'm so sorry this is me) Are things obvious to someone that may be unfamiliar with games? 

I don't usually write long reviews but this seemed very passionate and looking to make a lot so I wanted to make sure you got the feedback you needed! If you ever need more feedback feel free to ask. 

Hi! Please forgive my delayed review I got rather busy lately but I had a lot of fun playing your game on stream :D Albeit a little complex (tho that is mostly my weakness)  but not hard to overcome! I enjoyed the customization of your weapons with the Resident Evil-esque inventory and OOOH MY GOSH the final boss was just SO MUCH FUN!!! The one thing I mentionned that I'll remind you on here is simply maybe allow for the Picked Up XYZ UI to last a liiiittle longer so the player can know what exactly they picked up off the get-go :) 

Congratulations on your submission! I'm rooting for your continuation in game dev ^^ 

Probably the most complex game I've played this jam. This is really impressive. It took a little bit for me to get into it, but it's really well made and the mechanics for the builds are great lol

Cool game! A lot of the below reviews have already stolen the words out my mouth. This has so much content and it's crazy you made this in the time you had. The music is great! The aesthetics are cohesive . Confusion is an evil effect to give players! Controls were definitely on the strange side. So many customization options :^)

Now the best part is definitely the weapon building. MAN that is so cool. It look me a while to get another weapon... a cucumber... to use all the 2x2 flowers I had in my inventory. It took me a WHILE to figure out how to put everything everywhere (mostly, which controls to press) but when I got there I was able to smack my huge cucumber around in random directions dealing double damage... err

Great game. Just needs polish work

A very sweet game, love the use of the colour palette. A super interesting mechanic with the custom weapons! Also the inventory/backpack wheel is just super satisfying. Two small bugs I noticed - during the customisation screen the back arrow doesn't actually go to the previous option rather it seems to start possibly at the beginning again? The other being with the projectile weapons, if up against a wall, facing in any of the 4 directions, the projectile does not travel. Other than those small bits, its so impressive that you were able to create this during the jam time span, nice job!!

Wow, feels like there's a lot of content in this game. Very impressive for a game made within 14 days. There's lots of enemies, bosses, weapons, items, and their modifications. I doubt I would be able to make a dungeon crawler this big within this short amount of timeframe. Excellent job!

Very good mystery dungeon-esque game, there is a lot of content in this game, arranging from weapons, buffs, consumables, etc. The weapons I encountered mostly feels unique, some of them work similarly to another weapon. The character customization is really variative and I'm impressed by the amount of selections. The world generation is really good, it definitely has that same labyrinth-like feeling in the mystery dungeon game. And there are bosses too, that's probably the best part of this game.

That being said, there are a lot of bugs in this game. Here are some that I encountered :

•  Fruits that I have equipped are still equipped even if I dropped them
•  Sometimes I would obtain a fruit twice when picking them up
• The player on the map (green dot) would sometimes be offset from the map, re-toggling the map fixes this issue.
• My game crashed two times, one time was when i tried using the blueberry, and the other was when i was in the middle of the ninja fight (I was using the durian here with two flowers that increased my attack speed).

There is a lot of edge-cases here to take into account to make the game bug-free, and the crashes there might be due to some optimization issue. There's also some stuff that you can add for clarity, for example when nearing the flower bulbs, you can show the interact button on top of the flower bulbs, signalling to the player that they should press that button to interact.

If you're seeking to improve this game in the future, I think that's a great idea. By adding more polish in this game, adding in more combat system, and some amount of dialogue/story, there's a chance you can rival the mystery dungeon games.

There's insanely amount of effort for a 2-week jam and it hooked me on so long! (˶ㅇ⩊ㅇ˶) ⑉♥

• 6 customizations + 4 biomes + 8 mobs + 4 bosses + so many weapons, flower addons, consumables
• Visual and audio are all beautifully made and designed for each biome
• Nice UI/UX design on the inventory, weapon wheels and editing addons
  
• Gird-based backpack addon system with different builds to explore

Game structure has great potential and my nitpickings would be on game loop design, guidance and length

• Enemies have no drops nor benefits upon defeated, so players don't have any incentives to fight them than skipping for blubs/exit
• There is no hint on interacting with the blubs for items, and the goal is unclear for first-time players
• The game has too much content as a jam game, a full walkthrough taking 90min could mean that many players won't be able to make it to the final boss (which is really epic!!)

Love it after all, and I hope more people could pick it up without getting stuck uwu

It took a while... to understand the controls and how to play it, but its really worth it. Only issue is that game hangs after i played for a while..
I really enjoyed the game, and can see myself finish it if didnt hang on me.

Good job making this in 2 weeks, only nitpick i have is the controls arent really nice to use, and weapons are really obvious on which to choose like Dragonfruit or blueberry is the win weapon. 
Will also be nice to have explanation on like other effects like Pure etc.

A nice amount of customization here, and even the font was a cool touch. The pixel art is really pretty, and the world is decorated super well. I was honestly impressed by how much stuff you packed into this. There are a ton of weapons and items, and it was really fun seeing how differently they all handled, especially with the extra layer of customizing them further. There's a lot of depth here, and it feels like the kind of game where you could keep finding new combinations for a while. 

I also really liked the weapon wheel, it was easy to use and felt like a really nice polished touch. The minimap uncovering was great too, such a nice quality of life feature you don't see to often in jam games. And thanks for the gamepad support as well, it played really well on controller.

art and game vibes were immaculate, very comfy. finding and trying out the different weapons was definitely the highlight of the game.

going into the game blind, i was completely lost, with no tutorial or proper introduction on what to do i had to start over and read the page description to figure out what exactly the game was about. playing for a bit the game pretty much comes down to open any flower u come across, try new weapon, kill enemies, look for portal. for most games on this genre that tends to be enough, but here it just feels way to repetitive and the game quickly losses ur interest. areas look way to similar, not enough enemy variety or really any need to fight enemies... it felt like i shud just open flowers and find portals instead of fighting. while the player attacks do seems interesting at a glance, theres not much depth to it or any impact... definitely requires a bit more polish and game juice.

theres not much to do in the game, which is fine for a jam game. definitely has potential, but with how it is now theres just no real reason to come back and replay.

This is a game that is insanely way more deep than most jam games ever really deserve to be. Especially for a two person team. I am really impressed and I have no idea how ya'll managed to cram so many little things and polish a lot of it in this short a time. It really is something and the effort really shows.

But, there not being an in-game tutorial, tooltips or anything along the lines to me personally is A CRIME of the highest order. I found it very difficult to get into, particularly on the keyboard.

But, once I got used to the controls, and how to manoeuvre the UI, it quickly became one of the most replayable and intriguing games I've played so far this jam. Which just makes me more passionately offended it was so hard to get into.

Other than that:
- The void / aetherial aesthetic is a very unique change of pace and stands out quite a lot, and I love the way it actually does somehow keep the spring vibes. It is quite a surreal setting that feels kind of like "Springtime on the moon" to me. Very cool. 
- Combat with the different weapons and status effects is awesome. The sheer variety of weapons - and then my favourite part: The way you get to customize them with that pretty unique flower slot system to give them different powerups (Curious, was it inspired by anything in particular? Or something that was just imagined on the fly?).
- World changing with the map generation, very cool.
- All enemies are quite neatly designed and  are interesting in their variety.
- Great customization.
- Very neat music.
- Loved the leaf hitpoints.

And for the issues. 
- As mentioned, lack of in-game tutorial, button/key tooltips was really frustrating. At least on keyboard things did not feel too initially intuitive for me. Had to keep a copy of the game page open on the other screen and constantly peek back and forth before I got used to it. Especially when getting used to the inventory.
-   While I generally like the art, my first character was a light-skinned elf who for the first zone merged with their skin color into the background, and for the second zone that happened to their clothing. Eyes hurt quite a bit during that. But on my second run I purposefully picked something that was darker and stuck out more from the background and it was a lot better.  
- Suffered performance-wise quite a lot in the underground stage. Was using Opera GX and I don't think it liked the lighting/visibility effect in there. ;-;

Anyways, to wrap it up. Big smacking stick(Flowering Branch) was the favorite weapon, followed by dragonfruit. 
And should maybe seriously consider continuing work on this to some capacity sometime. Feels like there is something pretty unique and cool here.

Neat little game, I got stuck in an area with 4 of the confusion attack enemies, which did mess with me a lot

fowly moly, the leaves as health??? thats genius oml. I like everything about it. my main weapon, the durian, its sooo good!!

like the only problem i had was my eyes hurting due to the lack of focus, since theres no outlines, other than that PEAK 

I love the character generator and animations, super cool. Nice sound FX and music. Are the level procedural? Nice work!

Super fun game! This played real nice on controller, but I got confused on keyboard before I just went back to controller.  Got a little bit of a Noita feeling with the weapon, and I will have to explore more with that.  The customization was super cool, and I rocked the Lizard Turtle all the way!  Super polished, and definitely one of the more complete games I have seen this jam. Well done team!