The game is really nice and it feels more fast pacing also the music and game play kinda reminds in the castlevania symphony of the night, you did a lot of work when just to get this game right I do have to admit that I have to git gut in this game of yours but fun to play it.  also question, this a full game right?

• Cute protagonist.
• Better practice that Loomis.
• Looks pretty polished for a demo. Keep it up.
• The bosses stage progression was good.
• I don't like mashing the attack button for squeezing in hits.

Fun, cute, feels solid, good turn around animations, I wish I could explore something instead of the linear level. Pretty good overall! 

I had fun playing this. The potential it possesses to be a great Metroidvania is great and it will be exciting to see the project progress from here when you get to start working on an actual 'castle' (or equivalent) map.

The animation is clean and cute which both go a long way to making it fun to play and kept me engaged enough to give it multiple run throughs.

Combat felt good but I must admit in it's current form the shooting felt very unsatisfying. This will most likely change when/if it gets upgrades later.

The only thing I saw was that sometimes when killing the stacked turret enemies the top ones wouldn't fall down after clearing out a bottom one. This was rectified by killing the next one up which seemed to correct the logic and they would fall accordingly. Really good stuff here!

I suck at platformers, so prepare to wince. The purples and enemies in general looked good, except the cloaked-type character, I think their saturation was too similar to the background so it didn't look good. But maybe thats part of the cloak effect. I got confused after being revived at a savepoint and went the wrong direction for a bit. The glowstick throwing enemy has a nice arc. Players death animation is pretty brutal. I didn't realize you can shoot upwards (due to my suckiness). For the boss fight, it felt like sometimes the boss wasn't being hit even though it seemed like it should be. Also having to jump up on the boxes was tough for me because I kept wanting to double jump as soon as I could, instead of holding the button down for the full initial jump. Again I'm a pleb at these, so I never got the hang of it. Also the boss elements moved outside of the areas I was allowed to move through, so it felt like I was constantly getting gimped by the level geometry. But overall, nice, Im sure a veteran platformer player would enjoy it. I realized it didn't detect my controller because it wasn't plugged in, which probably would have made a difference, the z/x/c really sucked to try and use. Around 8:25 there is some kind of bug where I can't jump and shoot, however the ammo counter still goes down.

First off, really great controls. I played around in the start pool area for a good while just playing with the controllers before heading out any further, which is a pretty good sign.  I honestly haven't that much to say about the game, it played really nicely and it pretty fun (especially the boss).

I guess that the only complain I have was that the way leading up to the boss was a bit long and that the large waves of enemies really didn't compel me to stay around and fight them.  Like they were pretty easy to fight against, but near the end I just did my best to skip them. Maybe if they were to occasionally drop health/stamina/energy it would feel more rewarding to slay them.

The boss was great, tough as nails but great.

Nice work. I really like this. The character is well animated and feels good to control. Run speed, acceleration, jump height, etc... all feel good and polished. That "starting run" animation adds a lot of character, even though it's short. I like how you have that without having a delay to the movement. The "float time" in the air is cool, I think it makes your jump mechanics stand out a bit. Kind of a short Peach float, before you start falling.  The dash feels good, the shape of the motion is useful and interesting. Back-dash when you're not holding a button is a good idea. Great work on the camera, it feels smooth and natural. I think you're on track to have a very nice platformer.

A few crits/suggestions though. When you release jump, you can divide the y velocity by something between 2 and 4. This will make it smoothly stop, instead of setting the y velocity to 0 and making it instantly stop. Infinite range on the gun reduces the strategy of most encounters. Just stay as far away as possible and shoot. Shorter range would force players to get in closer to enemies, risking more. This would also set you up for a nice upgrade later. 

The stamina bars are really hard to make work. In my game, I had a system like that for quite a while. Every attack/roll would use up some stamina. But no matter what I tried, it never really added anything to the game. It just seemed to the players to randomly make things stop working. Even once they figured it out, it never felt natural or fun in any way. And the same problem is in your game. There is nothing fun about not being able to shoot or dodge. It's just frustrating. All you can do, as far as I can tell, is sit around and wait for it to recharge. If you watch people play, that is usually a hard stop for them. If you can find a way to make this work, good on you. I couldn't and I'm glad to have taken it out of my game. In it's place is a positive system, where you're rewarded with more powerful attacks if you can build up energy. Instead of a negative system, where you're punished for doing the main things you're supposed to be doing (attacking and dodging). 

If you're like me at all, you were looking at Dark Souls to see how its stamina system worked. The stamina in that game was really the backbone of the entire experience. But what I found was that the slower timing of confrontations, and the way they used space was why it worked at all. It forced you to pace yourself, and balance your attacks and defenses. Then, you could run away/run around if you used too much stamina, and that act itself was fun. In 3D space, you have to watch the aggressor, and try to avoid them while you're vulnerable. That's all much much harder in a 2D side view game.

Great game! Feels good and polished!

I love how every animation flows smoothly! The basic attack feels a little too long and the energy recharges fast enough for me to spam how many projectiles I want. I noticed when shooting, the girl will hold the square shooty thingy with her hands, but when jumping it will float around, causing shots to be less accurate. I don't know if that's a bug or a feature. Good job! Keep it up!

I anticipated playing this while seeing your webms in the threads. I am very interested in any game similar to my favorite CV games! This is a very very fun and exciting demo. I had a very very hard time with the boss, but I'd say it's just because I am bad, to be honest. But at the same time I very much dislike having roll on the shift key, granted I haven't played a platformer with a dodge roll in either a very very long time or ever at all. I got more and more used to it, and the boss probably took me 8-10 tries.

I didn't understand why I couldn't jump at certain times, and it was because I was running and shooting, and while still holding down arrow keys, was trying to jump. The jumps never worked until after I let go of the arrow keys and tried again. It looked like my little helper buddy was stuck on my gun, was that intentional, to show shes charging it or something? 

Great boss design! his moves were choreographed to where even when I went in the first time, I felt like I saw what was coming. At the same time, the strategy I used to win was just hide in the lower corner of the walls to auto dodge the smash attacks. Though, after I won, I came back to this page and saw you increased the shot frequency (I was playing an old version... shit!). That will probably stifle my cheesy strategy.

Very sweet game, I don't see much wrong with it other than my previous statement and lack of controller config.

Keep up the great work and this can be a huge success, one of my faves so far for sure!

• Sometimes the ranged attack gets bugged and doesn't shoot at all, but a couple of seconds after all the shots appear together like they had lag.
•  After a Game Over screen level's music never plays again. 
• Boss needs some kind of health bar to see how much you have damaged it. 

Enjoyed it a lot and can't wait for the next demo. Good job!

YOU LIKE CASTLEVANIA, DON'T YOU?

It's pretty well made, kinda wish you could attack upward though, pretty much agree with what khryse has to say for the most part. I'd suggest making the attack prompt to be more obvious, I didn't notice it the first time through and figured it out on my own a couple screens after I was supposed to. Maybe I'm just dumb.

The boss has way too much HP, especially one that you can beat by camping in one spot for the first two phases. It took me a good dozen tries, but it got boring near the end once I figured out you can shoot the projectiles, and his slamming attack has a couple openings that are never touched. It's a good boss, just a bit lengthy for what it was.

Also, I really really wish there were joypad controls.

I always enjoy seeing your progress and your demo is really well done and polished so much that you should probably move onto making levels if you're not already.

You can't have your first slide obstacle that is just the size of your slide, getting stuck is no fun.

The boss slam attack was feeling downright broken with how fast and unwiduppy it is, but the design was cool and the boss fight was fun, once i got over the frustration.

The final form was sort of bad, because you can only attack in front of you (i see another comment mentioning ranged attacks, i don't know they existed!), but if there's a ranged attack, i guess he's okay. I ended standing in palce and punching him while soaking up the damage.

The lightwhip seems a tad bit too OP, it's fast, straight and deadly to almost everything.

Overall i really liked it, except fro the antialiased text in the main menu (also really bright menu, jeez)

Boss fight was pretty fun. Had some issues with the ranged attack (I expected it to work in the air also?) and double jump acted a bit oddly sometimes. I recorded a full playthrough if that helps you any  https://my.mixtape.moe/htmrvx.webm .

Neat game, controls feel good. Couldn't figure out how to drop down platforms until the thread told me.

Maybe put in some more checkpoints, when I died at the fourth (I think) spike floor I got sent all the way back to the start of the grey area, felt like quite a lot to do again.

Also, after dying the music disappeared and didn't come back.

Good luck and keep up the good work!