I enjoyed my play through greatly, although as an unfortunate side effect, I now have a fear of biblically accurate angels lol. I also saw you got it submitted with a healthy amount of breathing room before the end of the jam; congrats with that! (I always end up pushing it to the last minute, which doesn't usually go well *nervous chuckle*)

I think the addition of the squire was a really great idea; it relieves some of the stress from the player. Though, it might be cool to see how the gameplay is altered if the squire's/count's shooting abilities were switched, forcing more control/responsibility onto the player.

Congrats on an awesome submission, and I look forward to seeing what you release next!

The gameplay loop just clicks instantly! It’s super simple to get into and insanely fun.
And I thought I was totally cooked at first, but then the squire! Help me a lot.

Nice one, I liked the progression and boy was I happy when I got my squire, what a day! :D

Nice little game. I like my squires to shoot angelic beings with their musket like that

good job!

Count Downes is a good pun and the game around it is clean and easy to read. The bow tracking the cursor feels right, and getting to pick between speed and health after a wave gives the run a bit of shape. Healing to full between waves is definitely the right call for something this short. The theme is where it's thinner for me. A wave that happens to count backwards doesn't change how I play, so the countdown ends up being decoration rather than pressure. I also hit a bug worth knowing about, when I died partway through wave 2 the Enemies Remaining counter dropped to minus one, so something keeps ticking after the wave should be over. Worth a look, since that number is the one bit of UI carrying the theme.

I liked the biblical angel things attacking me.

Nice game, like the pun take on the theme :)

It was enjoyable and I finished it. Well done!

The game felt very polished. I really appreciated the little things like how your squire has voice lines or how you can destroy projectiles using your own.

A reasonably fun shooter. I will say the "count down" aspect kind of got lost; the fact that there's a set number of enemies in a wave and it happens to be indexed backwards does not have a significant effect on the overall game.

a small, simple, pleasant little game