I like that you can just pick this up and play it with no introduction. There's no campaign or character progression, it's just a simple old-fashioned video game.

However, something it has in common with other old-fashioned video games is that you have to try things out and die many times before you understand how to play effectively. So your progression is not on an in-game skill tree, it's in your head.

That's not to say it's only for highly skilled gamers, though. I'm pretty bad at platform games in general, and I can play this, so it's not too punishing.

There are some bugs and underdeveloped parts, so it's sad that it hasn't had an update recently, but it's still good fun to play.

The main bugs / problems: 

• Players, monsters and items can get stuck inside platforms
• The bag size limit does not seem to have any effect, so powering it up is useless
• The "kill megas" mission can be completed by killing the purple mana bomb enemies (which do no health damage, just drain mana) instead.
• The mega slimes should be dangerous, but in fact if you just stand safely next to them and get hit by a load of mana bombs, they'll drop health and money and boost your kill count for as long as you want.
• The difficulty curve is inverted. It starts off hard, then as you pick up more hearts and become tougher to kill, the levels don't get correspondingly more difficult. So after a while, you end up overpowered and there's no more challenge.
• For such a graphically simple 2D game, the frame rate is too low and my processor is running much too hot, so there's optimization to be done.

Perhaps silly questions, but: how do you play? How do you kill enemies? How do you use an item? How do you do anything but take damage and die with no points?

It’s like this game doesn’t want to be played.

This game is great! I really enjoyed the art style, the sound (music/sfx), and the feel of the movement. My only request is that you add an introduction level. I was slightly confused at the beginning about what different things did and an explanation would have been helpful.