Digging the mechanics! I like that you can teleport to an enemy (it was pretty OP!) and the pixel art is crisp!

I wasn't too sure how to get past that metal door - I might have to explore more of the map. (And there was another door in the upper lefthand side of the initial map - wasn't sure how to open that one either hehe ^_^")

I was also having trouble with the gamepad controls - seemed to lock in and only allow keyboard controls (but my gamepad has been a bit buggy lately so it might just be on my end)

This is pretty good game - great work! :D

Liked the style, and It's admirable to see how many mechanincs you managed to implement in such a short time. Really nice execution!

Nice game, the bosses were fun, however, the final boss got repetitive quickly + the second phase didn't add much, and was a little too similar to the first boss. And really need to make apparent that to throw your weapon, you need to be close to an enemy, and that you can teleport using it, because I nearly thought the game was impossible at the beginning. 

Really well executed game I enjoyed playing it. Save system, fast travel, rebinding controls, really nice quality of life things to include in such a short time. Multiple bosses and a fun attack system. Some friendly critique id give is actually its really easy to softlock right at the start of the game when if you kill the enemys that let you get up and fall down without hitting the save (I thought the save was past the wall but its actually right there). Overall really well executed game good job.

I wanted to beat the final boss before reviewing, but i'm literally so bad at timed block lmao. Great game though. I love the art style and the music. The enemies and bosses were well thought out and unique. Fast travel was nice too, and the inventory/menu was very smooth

I loved the feel of the game and, for the most part, the art style. The background was particularly amazing.  Keep it up! 

Really cool! The combat is very dynamic and fluid. But the leve design is a bit too flat and spaced out, you should take a bit more advantage of the verticality.

The parallaxing background was really cool but I felt the player had too may abilities to start, you should maybe space out the second attack and teleport to thrown weapons as skills that you earn from exploring the starting level.

Most what I could say is already echoed by other commenters, but I wanna talk  about my experiences with the bosses. I think they're cool in concept, but leave a little to be desired in execution for me. The first boss is... rather dull to me. It's just a lot of waiting. You can't parry his barrage, so you're just having to wait for his big attack, which could happen anywhere between 5 to 30 seconds depending on how he's feeling with his barrages, and for a boss that requires you to learn parrying, I find it odd that only one of their attacks can be parried. I just found myself sitting in one spot, holding block, and turning left and right depending on where he is until he finally decides to give me an attack I could parry. Rinse and repeat until death.

The second boss I found to be a little better, but I feel like the game wanted me to use of the teleporting technique, but uh... Nah. Honestly, I think the second boss is way better suited to learn parry with since their only ranged attack can be parried without a problem. Best tactic I found was to stand directly under her, parry her ranged attacks 3 times, run to the left or right a bit to dodge the slam, and then head right back under her to rinse and repeat. I was encouraged to get potions, but I didn't need that with this strat. Enemies were a jump scare in the middle there and sent an absolute barrage my way, but nothing another parry couldn't fix.

 And the final boss was essentially a third verse same as the first. It's the first boss again, but twice. Admittedly they use the big projectile as their default and having to time increasingly faster paced parries is cool and much more engaging than the first boss, but... that's all there is. You do that for two health bars, one being in a sort of pseudo darkness, and you're done. He's a God King but he's only barely better than a Cursed King.

I think a lack of variety is the core of the problem at the end of the day. I think having more attacks that keep you moving and maybe more opportunities to parry other attacks could go a long way in making each boss more interesting and active than just sitting in place and waiting. Regardless though, I do think everything sounded nice and I found the gameplay to be fairly fun and reliable despite not really feeling like I was doing much in the bosses. Art was good and everything stood out well, nothing got lost in the background, attacks were always visible, and I did still enjoy my time. Good on ya for making this, it was an enjoyable little game here.

Nice job! I had a lot of fun with this. I love the deflect mechanic and the final boss with the repeated deflections was quite satisfying. I love the background art as well, it’s very stylish.

Super cool to see raylib gamedevs out there. I’ve been eyeing raylib for quite a while, and I was really impressed with how stable this game was on the web. I didn’t know Odin could make web games so well.

I liked the weapon throw + blink mechanic too, that was pretty fun to use. I agree with others that it was a little strange to have to take out and put away the weapon manually, but outside of that, an overall smooth experience.

Nice work!

Nice work, super cool to see an Odin based game, I’ve been dabbling with it for a while. It was only after re-reading your theme did I realize why the staff went away, but I agree with others that it was confusing to start places without the weapon. The mechanic is really cool, teleporting through things feels awesome and I love when blocking is really satisfying. I would have loved to see more levels design around the teleport but certainly understand the jam constraints. I think the boss build up was really good. Also super impressed to get three in! The final was a real struggle and just as I was thinking I’ve only got a few more tries in me, I managed to eke out a win.

I love the pixel art and environment design, though some of the sound effects seem a little too harsh, like the jump sound is a bit too high pitched, Great job!

Cool game! I think that the mechanic where you always need to equip/unequip your weapon is a little bit frustrating: you go to the boss room and you don't understand why you can`t do anything, because your weapon unequips automatically. When you want to activate a save point, you also need to unequip your weapon.
Most of all, I liked the teleportation mechanic. It is really good and fun, and it opens up a lot of space for attacks and other actions.
I also had problems with the parry: until I changed the keybindings in the settings (I changed Shift to Ctrl), I couldn`t do a parry.
Overall, I had fun playing your game. You did a great job!

I really like the artstyle and the teleportation mechanic, but I could not figure out how to parry for the first boss

Great game! the combat has a lot of depth and is fun to use. The bosses also feel epic and are challenging. Nice work!

The game has a great atmosphere. The art is decent. I really liked the combat system, especially the ability to drop a weapon and teleport to it. I also really liked the bosses, but I would have given them more attacks. I don't really understand the point of being able to equip and unequip weapons. It often happened that I drew a weapon, went to the boss, and it was unequipped. Many places are impossible to reach if the enemies you could teleport to are killed. Also, for some reason, the passage to the city wouldn't open for me at first (I think it's because I didn't set a save point, and I can't get to it due to the lack of enemies). I would have made the save points more visible. Otherwise, it's an interesting game, I liked it.

Very solid game here. The player felt good to control and I thought the presentation was cool. Loved how each biome felt.

I loved the options for combat that the player had. Being able to do range attacks and also parry with your staff felt pretty versatile. I appreciate how snappy the teleport felt as well. The enemies also had a solid variety to them as well. That said, I kinda soft-locked myself in the beginning by killing every enemy, but I didn't get to the top of the first world before that. I restarted the entire game after that so this wasn't an issue.

I'm a little mixed on the  "metroidvania " aspect of this game. It felt more like what cave story is in a way ( i.e mostly linear worlds which are inter-connected at specific portals ). The game was still fun to traverse, but it definitely was slightly lacking in that respect. I also thought it was slightly annoying how I kinda had to grind a bit to get the entrance to the last area.

The bossfights were pretty damn good though. I thought the first boss was pretty solid. I kinda wish it had different animations for it's attacks though ( Tbh, this is an issue I had with all of the bosses ). I loved how the second boss really forced me to move around a lot while needing to parry their projectile attacks and dodge their charge attack. Having enemies spawn during the boss was also a cool way to mix up the second phase. I also loved how the final boss sorta forced me to use the teleport and then use the multi-stab attack to get them quickly. I'm not entirely a fan of their second phase though. It didn't feel different enough from the first and just felt like I was doing the same thing twice. Playing tennis with the boss was intense enough that this didn't really bother me that much, but it was definitely somewhat annoying.

All that said, this a pretty fun game overall. Good job on this