Great color palette, and a nice art style! As others have already suggested, adding different types of pirates (like maybe some who stay away and shoot arrows) would be cool. It would also be nice if you could block attacks. Had a lot of fun, keep it going!

The art and combat effects are really nice, and hitting enemies feels surprisingly satisfying.

I think the main thing holding it back is the lack of variety. Fighting the same enemy over and over gets repetitive pretty quickly, and the enemies rarely put enough pressure on you to make the fights feel dangerous.

With a bit more enemy variety and more aggressive encounters, I think the combat could become much more engaging.

Art was amazing, sound effects were good, I enjoyed the gameplay but wished there were more enemy types or a goal to get to.  Maybe a boss fight after X enemies?  But for a game jam game that's forgivable, just ideas for the future.  Good job!

Good looking pixel art and animations.  Like others said, add some progression of some kind and you'll have a game on your hands here.  Maybe have an enemy variant that steals the gold horde instead of attacking you... then the player has to balance defending themselves and defending the gold.

GREAT graphics and animations. Gameplay was fun, although it seems incomplete; the game could do with a goal, like kill this many enemies and you get a cutscene that's a drawing of Sigvard standign attop the dead enemies as the end (simple idea).  The game does have gameboy soul and interprets the "old gold" theme pretty well. Good job!

The art in this game is fantastic!

This was a neat little game! The sprite deign was really neat and expressive, and the 3 lane combat setup allowed for a lot more mobility than I'm used to in beat 'em up style games. Nice job!

Absolutely love the sprite designs and the music / SFX, I agree with others that it would be nice to see a ramp up in difficulty, but for the short timeframe I think this is a neat little game!