This is really simple and has a great feel to it.
I like the floaty jump; the controls and physics feel really tight and well exectued.
Awesome work :)
I feel guilty about this, but I actually just finished on my very first run by simply escaping from each battle X{
Added later : Actually not that guilty as this counts as my revenge for standing still and letting the timer run down in Yuki-onna :P
Admittedly this is totally against the spirit of the game, but since there is no reward for fighting the enemies and this is more of an attritional route planner then I figured my resources would stretch further by ending the battle as quickly as possible - usually by running away!
I think this would work better with on map symbol encounters with a mix of some compulsory stationary ones placed at bottlenecks and others that follow the player around the map waiting to punish them for route planning mistakes and wrong turns.
I appreciate this would have involved a bigger workload and you're struggling with your output a little now so I'll let you off XD (only this once haha)
I think the concept and premise were really good and without giving any backstory the game painted it's own dark and serious tone that oozed out past the rm2k assets that we see in our lucid dreams by now :)
Wishing you a speedy revitalization :)
Thank you and yes - I am indeed looking out for possible collaborations and although I am currently engaged in a couple of other team works at the moment I would still be happy to hear your idea and we can discuss how I can contribute.
My discord is @Razuth so you can hit me up on there or if that's not an option then let me know and we can find some other way to communicate.
Real nice pixel graphics and animations - especially on the character dialogue busts. Impressive.
At first I was a bit miffed as to why I was able to walk through some of the environmental objects like the trees and lampposts but then I quickly realized why and thought that was a great design choice. Cool game!
*gulp* I never want to get a tan ever again after playing this.
Also very relatable because the country I live in is not used to hot weather and there's a heatwave going on right now and I have the cooling fan going 24/7.
I really like the retro graphics and especially the MCs sprite.
The music's also good too and fits the vibe very well.
I 'got a tan' very quickly in all my runs so I think perhaps the difficulty could do with tweaking a little but other than that this is a real cool and solid game. Nice work!