I normally leave much more in depth feedback but it's day 11 of ratings, everybody else already said the important stuff, and I am gassed - I like metal slug and this feels like cowboy gameboy metal slug so thumbs up from me. Two things that do stand out though:

• The survival mode theme is an absolute banger oh my god, I'm so sad that it doesn't loop.
• Like other comments said, press to shoot instead of hold to shoot is a real issue (especially for the boss), my fingers were pretty sore by the end of it.

I really enjoyed this demo! It reminded me a lot of Sunset Riders, which is a game I spent a lot of time with, so that immediately worked for me.

The levels and character sprites are really well done. I think being able to shoot diagonally, and especially while moving, could make the action feel even more dynamic.

I also really liked the boss, although I found a spot directly underneath him where I could avoid all of his attacks and keep shooting safely. He also takes quite a lot of hits, especially for a first boss. Maybe giving him a bit less health but adding short invulnerable phases could make the fight more varied ( for example, having him hide behind the saloon counter while throwing molotovs).

Really promising!

That was neat! The designs are stylish, the art is excellent, and that kick is fun to use!

The music and sound is great and punchy, but a little imbalanced. Additionally, it's possible to stack the kick sound on top of itself equal to the number of enemies kicked at the same time (possibly 6 to 8 at the same time!)

All-in-all, great work!

The gameplay surprised me after seeing the initial point and click part, it was really challenging but fun, and the art and music was all great! That was a nice little addition that wasn't necessary, but with it added made me sit back and go "damn! you're good.." lol

Lot of little things I enjoyed: western musical sting on exiting the start screen, swing beat in the intro cutscene, main menu shooting (and reloaded to try the bottle after seeing the comment about it), the kick animation, the prone animation when pressing down (I saw this is in Contra as well, haven't played it myself!) which I wonder if it could work as a dodge? Maybe that goes against established genre expectations, idk. Love slopes in side scroller levels, I feel like they get avoided in small indies due to the extra work. The barkeep whipping out the shotty caught me by surprise the first time. I think he could've been just a little harder, but better to err on the side of easy for a jam game IMO. While I feel the train is a perfect setting for scrolling parallax backgrounds, the visuals read very cleanly as-is and seem true to the early Game Boy.

Good stuff. Mobile plays pretty well, wish more games supported it.

Eyy, a fellow Gold Rush themed game!

The platforming and shooting mechanics felt smooth and responsive. I’m getting a lot of Contra and even Metal Slug vibes. I had fun playing on the survival mode too, props on adding that in to the game.

Keep it up!

I had fun with this one, it felt like an authentic platform shooter for the Game Boy with awesome graphics and audio. It gave me a lot of Contra 3 vibes with enemies busting through the windows.

Boss fight I think needed some tracking on the molotov because it's pretty easy to cheese. And if you plan on expanding this further I would recommend looking into ways to make it so you/enemies can run down slopes more smoothly.

The game takes to the old west and takes that theme very well and runs with it! shootouts, broken glasses, kicking everything we need. Love the little cutscene sketches as well! Only “bad” thing I can say is the collison does feel a bit off from time to time.

Graphically the game to me feels like straight out of the gameboy era, well done on that!

Sfx, music are great and catchy, could use a little sound balance though due to volume.

Other than that, lovely addition to the old west entries to the jam! Great job!

Very snappy! I really like the box kicking. I really like how the area looks and how well it captures the arcade vibe. The music is outstanding too!! Gameplay-wise, there were a couple spots where I jumped into the roof and got permanently stuck, and during the boss fight it felt like I was killing my fingers mashing the shoot button. The arcade mode was also pretty easy to solve by just running to one side and mashing to shoot. I think it could benefit from some way to interact more with the different types of enemies. Good work!!!

Interesting game, I really like the graphics. There could be a way to regenerate some health in survival mode

I enjoy when boring ol' menus are implemented in a fun and thematic way. Happy to see the glass bottle was shoot-able!

The Run 'n Gun genre is really cool and a wild west theme feels fun and different. An infinite ammo semi-automatic gun seems a little mismatched. Certainly an interesting design problem to consider how a single-action revolver could be made fun in a genre where typically more bullets is better. I kinda would have preferred if you gave me a suboptimal firerate, but allowed me to hold down the button to automatically shoot. I could mash the button if I wanted to shoot faster in some situations.

Given the small size of the Game Boy screen, everything seemed to move a bit too fast perhaps. Or maybe if the camera was offset in front of the player to allow them to see more as they are sprinting forward into the unknown!

The boss fight was a fun little surprise. Although I kinda just sat on the leftside of the screen and seemed to be out of range of the fire bombs. And boy did that snake take a lot of bullets, and still ran away (I think, right, I already forget apparently)!

I had fun runnin' & gunnin' AND analyzing the design! Great work, keep at it!

Yeeha, that's fun as hell. Definetely feels retro. I've stuck in textures at some point, but it's small price to pay for this experience. Very good job!