Here is its eulogy, a collection of the kind words written about it while still among the living. They shall live on forever in its place.

Tips:

-IF IT LAGS turn the quality down in title screen! It will probably lag its very badly optimized sorry

-You can't spam attacks, watch your endurance.

-Try to attack after dodging the monster attack

-Monsters CAN hit other monsters (when there are 2 at once)

-There are 2 save points in each level.

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WHAT I THINK ABOUT IT A LONG TIME AFTER

It was supposed to be some kind of 2D Dark Souls, but with a very cute village with npcs (you can see the pretty cool dialogue bubbles with the tutorial signs) and a sick story where you do quests then after one you come back to the burning village getting attacked, you manage to survive this day and start your revenge. But like a lot of things with this game it was too hard for me to do it so it ended up being this mash up of 3 stages seemingly out of nowhere that are not very cool.

The player character is alright but not super cool, i don't mind his simple appearance but with my new style i would have made him a "cool brawling kid" instead of how he is which is kind of a reflection of myself at the time: an adolescent that doesn't really know or care about what he is, his sprites and animation are too rigid too, no personality, but also his combat could be more fun, when I first made him as a stickman he had a sick 3 slash combo with left-click (slash > 6 slash circle > rising uppercut slash jumps a bit) that was easily more fun but I downgraded to this without realizing it, it still works though that's something. He does have a nice weight to his actions to make them more meaningful i love it! THE WEAPONS THO have very very unique playstyle each combined with the unique monsters it seems like it could be a really awesome game if done way better, I really didn't get that feel from any other action game (Dark Souls is only 2 playstyle: the lackluster melee and shield/parry/roll spam, or the even more lame pussy ranged magic which are almost all the same) . But right now they are still too slow and some are extremely gimmicky not having many moves combined with the game not having a lot of opportunities to use them cuz its so short, so you only get that feeling a few times if you know which weapon to use how to use it and where which of course I do cuz I made them.. could use some seamless tutorials using story npcs etc.

The enemies and bosses look meh but still are all unique interesting fights that's the main thing I like about this game I guess, they are not your usual popcorn enemies that die in 1 hit, each one is probably more like a miniboss by most action games standards! Bosses could use a story, better art, enrage phases. They have cool mechanics but I couldn't make them too crazy because the player movement is so limited too could ramp up both in late game. The enemies could vary too could be 1 big scary guy or 10 small less obnoxious could have allies sometimes too.

It can have cool random useless rainstorms and nights when you load a stage, but that would have been so much cooler if I could have done the village and it really had an impact.

I did spend a long period / a lot of time trying to make this and its previous version that was never released with a village, maybe 5 years working on and off when I was at school like "in total", I was bitter that it was this lame after this much time but I did learn a very important lesson: its hard as fuck to make a cool game XD, I want to try to remake this game.. someday..