Okay so here i am gonna be 100% honest and wont lie and just say how i felt after the playing the game
Firstly lets start with positives :
1.Great inclusion of mvm references
2.Beautiful art
3.Nice Dash effect(I have ran out good things to say actually )
4.bosses were cool
Now the Cons OR Things I found annoying and not fun :
1.The world feels empty like it has a whole lot of nothing and just iis empty and feels boring to revisit older areas
2.The music - this is one thing i hated the most in the game the start area and start screen music is so annoying like my ears actually started to hurt after playing the game i took a break and continued later
3.Now this one is MASSIVE ONE : the player itself now i will explain this in depth
a) the movement is fine i would say slow yes but thats fine i would say the main prob is that after the player does the attacks they get moved in that direction now this i hated the most literally made me rage quit the game
b)The upgrades sys is telling the player to grind instead of explore and i think thats not cool personally the shop was weird if i had a guess i think you had no time therefore you made a shop for upgrades
c)Player respawn is a bit unfair i would say but this part i would say is pass able actually
4.Bosses : So i am shocked firstly i liked the bosses (like i mentioned above) but the boss hurt boxes are too off feels like i took damage by the air and dont get me started on the flying one like its a cool fight but its paced badly the boss is never open to take damage and when it is the player attacks suck so you just end up taking damage and finally make the arena that tiny is crazy and making it fallable its like you wanted the player to chill around personally the fight could have been so much cooler if the boss was there a lot of time and the arena was not fallable. The wolf boss i think is fine not that much to complain about it ig .
5.Things are unclear like after hitting a switch i am going around trying to see what happen just to see a door opened like maybe a sound effect or something or atleast make the thing we hit different sprite so we understand its important
6.The game in my opinion is not a metroidvania its more of a action rpg like thats cool but I think this could have been a metroidvania if there were more connections to areas and stuff instead of the mostly linear structure which gives the feeling of a journey but towards the ends make u disappointed
Suggestions / things to improve thing :
1.make the player more fun to use and make its attacks not put them in danger
2Make the world more connected
3.and probably add hp up or stuff in the world instead of a shop
Now to End this review i would like to say the game was fine i expected a lot more from the game but left disappointed also if my language here was rude or anything sorry i was being 100 % honest thats all and GL for future projects