This was so charming, I liked the music shift change at the end walking back! The twist was also pretty good and fits really well with your story! Combat also felt good but if you expanded it it would be cool to see more enemies that take a couple more hits. Really well done, my only wish is that there was music in the beginning!

Such a nice game. The gameplay was simple, but done well, and the story was very touching. Good job :3

so. i took the theme, and made a game, kinda.
you took the theme, and made art, an experience, a true calling of the soul.
the reason i choose game dev, and not any other media to express my work, is because no other media has that active component, no other media can hold up a mirror and reflect us so completely when done right.
bastion, to the moon, undertale, majors mask, the beginners guide. all these game leave lasting emotional impacts on their player, all these games teach us something.

and now Cherries of Willowmere is among the pantheon.

honestly i hope your the last person to comment on my game, it would be so picturesque if this was the last game i played this jam. someone who had the same skill set, who had the same cards in their hand, and made art while i made a game.

your game says thank you for playing, but i'd argue we should be thanking YOU.

This is how you do an impactful yet very tight narrative. The simple combat was very polished and punchy. Felt very immersed in the whole experience, awesome job! 

The combat feels good! I like the ticking music; if only it was also synced up with the countdown :D! I also like how the game is quite straightforward to play without being hand-holdy. Nicely done!

Charming story and a solid amount of narrative for such a short time. The aiming was definitely a bit rough and I lost more than one run to my character not hitting a target that I thought I had lined up so that was a bit frustrating. But otherwise it was a sad but touching story so you did a good job of presenting that. Nicely done!

Good work on the game, Ali! It took me a bunch of attempts but in the end I managed to get the cherries! Just sad that the ending is still what it is but that's how life goes. It ends.

The one thing I found a little annoying was that I was unable to aim my character's view direction with my mouse which often made me miss my hits. But it's fine it was overall still an enjoyable experience and it kinda added to the challenge. Good design choice to make the HP time and the fireballs cost you time rather than an extra HP bar.

Absolutely amazing way of storytelling, that one hit hard. Wouldn't surprise me to see this in the GMTK video

Very well rounded and polished with just the right amount of jjuice - overall very impressive! Congratulations on the submission.

I really liked this! A really good narrative for the theme, and it was well polished, with the combat feeling responsive and satisfying to do :D And as others have said, the different versions of the music were great and really set the mood. I loved that the music would fade to hear the ticking in the last 10 seconds of a run.

I'd love to play a longer version, especially if there's more mechanics to learn so the player has to kind of optimise the perfect run in order to do it in time! Well done!

The game is so well polished! I love the story either, it's so touched and well conveyed! And the mood of music design to serve the narrative have been done so well either, i've enjoyed it!

Impressive game! It is unfortunately too hard for me to even get into the garden, but I enjoyed the intro sequence and the game play anyways. :)