Great music, graphics, and sound design. The battle dungeon track is especially nice to listen to, and I loved the tiny crosses scattered around. Gave the whole thing a bit of a Dark Souls vibe.

The gameplay felt like a Zelda puzzler mixed with a Bloodborne-style roll mechanic. The bats are kind of OP with those projectiles and lunge attacks though. The room with the batwing gave me a rough time, but the save right before it was well placed.

With the different traps and enemy types, this feels like a really finished product. Those chests though. What a bluff!

Really happy I could play this on actual hardware. Giving you a follow, and happy to have this one on my Game Boy.



How many strikes to beat the guardian?

Gameplay is solid, albeit a touch finicky. I managed to glitch out the sword stab and make her have the sword out indefinitely, moving without animation once this was done. Sometimes spikes seemed to obstruct your path before they came up.

The graphics could've use some contrast tweaking, especially in the first area. Having the protagonist and the floor be mostly the same color makes everything kinda blend together. Either a lighter hue, or a darker hue (which I encountered later) helps to make it more clear where the main character is. The darker hue, however, obscures the spikes instead, making it really easy to careen into them. On actual hardware with less-than-perfect light, the darkest and the dark hues look not horribly different.

In some areas, stabbing with the sword made parts of the health/stamina HUD not display due to overloading the sprite limit.

Without any sword swing in the action combat, I could see bump combat with the sword always out working pretty well.

Music was good, and probably the highlight of the game.

This game's concept feels right at home on GameBoy.

The first puzzle had me for quite a while and later died in a random doorway for seemingly no reason? Dunno honest. The game has a lovely idea with a puzzle mostly delivers quite well.

Graphics wise it look on spot. I do feel like sound effects are drowned out by the music, which at parts is really loud/busy? Could use some downtime for the track from time to time.

Overall nice zelda like puzzle game, well done

The puzzles were pretty neat! Some aspects of combat felt a bit glitchy, and I had an instance of a skeleton warping its way through a wall, but I liked the mechanics. Dodging over the spikes was pretty satisfying, and once I got the hang of how it played it was pretty enjoyable.

I did struggle for identifying some of the interactable objects, and I think the pedestal telling folks how to dodge would be better served being right at the start of the game, since you can use it right way, and it's helpful dealing with the skeletons while ringing the bells. Also, really nice job getting this all working in GB studio!

Somehow got through the first puzzle on my first try.

Huge zelda vibes, atmospheric soundtrack, a very solid entry!

fun zelda-like! i enjoyed the fairytale storytelling.

This was awesome! Making the first puzzle a little more clear could be helpful but I loved the game. The art was exceptional!

VERY fun and polished entry !! i loved my playing time :)

Very nice game, challenging, but I managed to finish it, once I got the grasp of it and thanks to save points !

Great game! Loved the pixel art. I appreciated the save points before entering a difficult room. Played on my Game Boy Color :)

Damn those chests!!! I love the Zelda-like puzzles

Nice opening line, no one knew of its existence sets the scale before you see anything. and drawing the gb jam splash as an actual game boy with the logo on its screen is a good touch. the temple tiles read clearly too. nice job

The art is nice, but I did not figure out the first puzzle, and I seem to not understand what I'm supposed to do.