I found this game quite enjoyable. It's a fairly simple concept, but it certainly pulled me into it. I feel it has fairly well balanced difficulty as well.

Simple concept with a great execution, I ended up playing for longer than I realised. Great compo!

Simple yet very fun! Also i love the sprites!

Really fun Mario Bros.-style game. A little too hard for me, but beautiful work!

Awesome graphics and smooth execution. Great work!

Nice small game, simple and tight controls! I clicked outside the playarea a few times and lost control of my character which usually led to a retry, but after learning that it was fun to play. Good audio effects and music, fit the graphics nicely

I really like the game! It could definitely benefit from a life system perhaps. You could easily die once. Good work!

Hey there nice game i liked the overall mood and the special weapon! Keep on Rocking!

Great graphical style and color choices. Font choice is spot on also. Some effects like the enemy death is nicely done.

Attack could have used some more juice. also the flame you're protecting. The game is too hard with only 1 health.

Overall very good!

It was great, I really liked the jumping and stabby combat system and how if I was getting overwhelmed I could buff my sword into a chaotic lightsaber and flail it about.

Nice game! The controls were very responsive and it was fun to play.

Nice game. I like that beautiful pixel art and simple but fitting background music. Spinning blade is a nice powerup idea too. IMO jumping was kinda weird. Nice work!

Great entry! Yeah it really reminded me of Mario bros, as somebody else mentioned. Stunning graphics and extremely well polished! The only thing I miss is some sort of highscore-system!

I wound up playing this waaay longer than I expected too. The execution is great, I especially like the sound effects that make it very satisfying to kill stuff!

Nice game. Liked the tone of it and the graphics a lot, though maybe more effects at times would benefit it. Gameplay wise was active and fun to play and the soundtrack felt eerie enough!:)

This was very easy to pick up and understand how to play. A great game with great visuals and sound to match. Great job

Reeeeeally good. Great design, pacing and game feel. Perfect duration for a jam and very good difficulty for me. Not a lot more to say. Good job!

I like the graphics and choice of color palette! I feel like the jumping was very floaty which made it hard to fall in time to catch enemies. Overall, It's a fun game and attacking felt very satisfying :)

Enjoyed the game wish there was a downloadable build. The html5 game wouldn't let me hit "E" the first two times I loaded the page. I almost didn't play it but tried a third time and it worked.

very nice game, maybe just add the "Press E text" i wait a lot for enemys xD, i also think it was a bug and refresh the page :c
very nice art

What a fantastic game! Well polished, tight controls and beautiful graphics. Hard but not frustrating, a very much job well done

Great Game ! the sounds effects and the art was really good ! I liked the fight system!

Pretty cool idea, it was fun to play and the atmosphere was great! I'd recommend making the player's basic weapon a bit larger though, since at the moment it's difficult to hit enemies just because the attacks require such precision. I really like the soul blade mechanic, it's always nice to be rewarded for doing well in a game!

Very nice game. The controls seemed to stick when wrapping around the stage.

Nice!

It reminds me quite a bit of [Super Crate Box](https://store.steampowered.com/app/212800/Super_Crate_Box/). Have you ever played that? :)

This game was simple but brilliant. The graphics and feel are really nice, and so are the sounds. The controls are smooth and not too complex. The difficulty is well balanced, and gave me more gameplay than expected

As other said above me. It's simple but good !
The limited color palette really add the the aestethics and mood of the game !
One of the game of this jam that I played for the longest time ^^ I ended up stopping because for unknown reason I couldn't move right randomly which was gamebreaking. I don't know if it's a bug with your game or if my keyboard is dying on me...
My only real bit of criticism would be that the theme is really loosely adapted. By interpreting it like this you could basically adapt every game that has enemy in it. Still, really fun game, congrats !

Cute game, very satisfying to play

Loved it! Great gameplay,sprites and audio! Why no lovely particle effects on the big old flame though?! :laughing:

Really nice game, tight controls and well-balanced enemies, not to easy and still a lot of fun to play! :D

What a nice little game. It took me a couple of tries but in the end I managed to beat it :)
I just had a small bug a couple of times, that one input got stuck and I kept walking into one direction until i pressed that button again.

Great stuff, man! Very cool art, and neat vibe, for sure. Good luck!

After some initial trouble with some keydown or keyup events not working it started to work perfectly. At which point I had tons of fun. The art and music create just the right mood for the setting and the gamepley feels snazzy.

To make the game even cooler it just needs soume sound-efects and maybe the souls being sucked into the actual flame.

Also I don't think the 'falls down once, comes back stronger, falls back twice, you dead' mechanic mentioned in the beginning is actually in there. If it is, it is broken

Se me slaying the skulls and demons:
https://youtu.be/TP4PI58u3O0

Great game, everything has a cool vibe, and everything fits together.
Killing the enemies was also really satisfying.
I had some problems, because sometimes the character just walked without me pressing something, but other than that, it was just the right level of difficulty

Visuals and sounds are fine. However, the difficulty curve is pretty steep and the game becomes too hard in a moment. Additionally, I'm not a big fun of floating gravity, but it's personal preference.