Really cool little game! I will say that I agree with other commenters that it can be a little hard to tell what's happening and what is damaging the enemy and what's damaging you. Still, this is incredibly impressive for having a major development issue.

The current UI and graphics design work is stellar! You guys also had great music and from what I've seen of the art, good art direction. Its a shame that development was so troubled because I think you guys could have developed something great! I think what the game was really missing was some sort of boss heathbar. I felt aimless just ramming into the boss circle until me or it died. Regardless, I'm exited to see what you guys make next, you guys clearly have an eye for great design!

The visuals and music are phenomenal, especially the UI. Good job!

Really cool UI and art direction! It's clear you had a really strong vision. The combat was also really satisfying 

This game felt soooo polished and juicey to play!! The presentation was amazing, and shows the amount of care and ambition for the game, and even after reading the description, I am still quite amazed about how polished it feels! I can only imagine what it would have looked like with actual characters, but honestly, the circles flexed around in such cool ways that I really liked the game for what it is now either way!

The main critique I have, is that I wish you got launched immediately after letting go of the chain button during a slow motion. I found myself not using the slow motion function so much due to that latency (even though the sound was SO SATISFYING!!). I also thought it was a bit hard to tell whether I or the enemy took damage if I just rammed into them without using the chain, but other than that, I loved all the particles and stuff!

I wish you the best if you continue with this game, I bet it would be a banger!!

The UI and menu music was extremely captivating and really polished! I trust the game will look great when it is developed a bit more! As for right now, the movement felt smooth and the time slow and chain are really crisp, but without a tutorial or instruction, the game is unfortunately unreadable as it stands.

I am super excited to see how the game turns out though!

I love the time-slow mechanic and the visuals! my biggest issue is there's no way (if there is, I didn't see it...) to tell how many hits each enemy will take, or if you're missing hits (specifically for the teleporting enemy), but everything else was really cool. if there was more time, it would've been awesome to see how each enemy looks during the fights

Incredible visuals for the game. Game oozes aesthetic! The menu and artwork are really well-done and super easy to get immersed in. I think my only nitpick is just contextual stuff; I didn't really know what was happening with character select or just when in gameplay. I also didn't know if I won or not, and how health worked exactly (I think it had to do with mph, but I wasn't sure). Either way, good stuff y'all!

The UI and visuals are great, and so is the music. But I think the game needs to be more clear on what you are supposed to do.

11/10 for presentation already! the menu looks amazing as expected and the artwork of the characters looks incredible too!

Moving around was a lot of fun but it was not fully clear to me what exactly I was supposed to do, am I supposed to just bonk into the others or what does the chainwhip do exactly?

Rpm as a healthbar is clever too, I hope you'll continue to work on this one cuz I do think there's a lot of fun to be had here despite the issues you seem to have ran into during production.

also: ''Monarch forgot to put text to this bullsh*t'' LMAO

this is so amazing! it has a really distinct visual identity and the controls are really fluid 

Absolutely wonderful game, really enjoyed it! The controls are responsive and intuitive, although unfortunately they are listed the wrong way around in the corner of the screen for the mouse buttons. My only complaint is that it was hard to determine enemy health and if you won/lost, but I had fun playing.

Reallly awesome game! You managed to make relatively quirky movement physics feel very responsive and fun! I will say I found it hard to know if enemies had health or how exactly they were dying, and if I "won" the level or not as there's no screen indication, but still a lot of fun just to move around and play the various levels/enemies, and bonus points on the awesome main menu!

I wanted to play this earlier but I got an error when trying to play (something about a pck file) I had to refresh and try multiple times this time around to actually get the game to start, not sure if this is just me or a bug.

Very good game in terms of visuals and feel! Theres a lot of nice action feedback and the ui is also absolutely gorgeous and responsive, I love the art of the character portraits too, theyre really well done. As for the gameplay, it also looks and feels really good to control, though i also kinda dont have a proper understanding of whats really going on i guess? its not really clear whats happening youre mostly just jumping straight into gameplay after the quick story. But that could just be me being dumb though who knows :p Overall though this is still a really satisfying game! Good job

for me, the game was super confusing and I can't say I understand the concept of it

I've worked with you guys on two game jams before and not unlike those, this was a very ambitious project. It's clear to me as well that it's easy to just slightly overscope during a jam and if, additionally, just a couple of things go wrong during development, the loss of that time can have a huge impact on the final result. The good stuff is obvious - Lusk and Rockii made some very nice portraits and tracks, no notes there. The backgrounds and presentation all have a very consistent feel, solid style. (I do wish the grid of the battlefield could be a little less opaque, it hurt my eyes a bit when I was going fast)
Enemy AI was executed very well in my opinion, you tried to communicate and anticipate every attack beforehand and their movements kept me engaged throughout.
What really sells it though.. The controls are sick. The lerping of the blade, the animation when you hit an enemy! Even though it's just represented by a circle, the feeling of spinning really really fast is realized super well here and it's obvious to me that the time spent on crafting and improving upon this basic movement was great allocation of development resources.

I wouldn't say this about a lot of the other stuff, though. And this is where your ambition dragged you down quite a bit again.
(Long inhale) SIX encounters, fodder enemies, attack patterns, cool backgrounds, a smooth Monarch ui-slop menu in true fashion, an options menu, a stylized encounter selection with portraits, pre-encounter story text, two special abilities, an interesting spin on health points, multiple music tracks, the list goes on! (gasp for air) 

I think you should try to shift your focus away from quantity. I believe that at its core, in ideal form, a jam entry like this one should be more like a polished prototype than a full experience. I imagine what you could have done had you, say, limited yourself to just two or three really good battles. One that actually shows you the basics of the game, one that challenges you to learn its fighting language and one that truly tests your skill. Instead, there's six bosses that each have around 1-3 special moves, from what I've seen.
I did not feel a difficulty curve during my playthrough. It seemed like Dracula was around the same challenge as Dwayne or Baba Yaga.
And while pre-encounter text can help set the atmosphere, it lacked the depth and invested resources here to truly get me on board with what was happening and instead blended together into a vaguely themed blob of words. I even feel like using the time you spent on implementing the text and putting it into the game to instead just work out some nice, contextualizing paragraphs for the game description could have worked better. Like how old games used to do it with their manuals!

Tldr.; there's lots of great stuff here. You guys are great. It's a very fun game to play. (Which is arguably the most important part!) But for a one-week jam, don't focus on variety. Prioritize YOUR niche and make it stand out! That way, if things go wrong either IRL or for technical reasons, you can still catch back up and dont feel like you have to spread yourself thin just to have every aspect covered.

Super cool game!! I love the character designs, they're all super well drawn! The gameplay felt satisfying, however I was very confused about what was actually happening. There was no indication of whether either me or the enemy was taking damage and I couldn't ever tell if I beat or failed a stage. Other than that though, I seriously had a blast playing this! It's clear you put a lot of love and work into this game. Seriously well done!!

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