Bittersweet Birthday

I realize it's a boss but it's far too much of a difficulty spike. You should add enemies in between so that the player is more prepared.

Fun game so far, but the X and Square graphics are swapped for the ps4 buttons, so x=square action square=x action

Edit: and now is says circle to dodge but I have to hit x...? And circle is attack, all the buttons it shows to press for a certain action seem to not be the correct ones except for triangle, that one's correct. but when I go to rebinding, it shows everything correctly. Not sure why this is happening or if when I downloaded it it got corrupted or something...

But besides all that, which i'm sure will be fixed in the main release, It's an extremely charming game and I would recommend it, Will definitely be backing it! 

nerf your first boss fight no first boss fight should be that har

Are there keyboard controls or?

I loved both the art and the gameplay, though I think some of the animations and sprites of the main character are a little weird (i.e. the way his knees bend when his back is towards the camera). If the difficulty of the first boss is any indication, it will be a good challenge when it finally releases. Good luck!

Edit: Forgot to mention that it crashed two times. At first I thought it was a problem with my PC, but when it happened again I had moved to my laptop.  It wasn't anything that would make me quit the game, but considering it was a 60m demo, I think it would be worth checking if it was just a freaky coincidence or an actual problem.

If I woke up with amnesia and some random bird dude would attack me, my first thing to do would be ask questions (and maybe question my sanity), not just shrug it off with a "I guess I'll have to kill him".

Really promising start, I hope to see this officially released someday. Obviously still early development on this, but some thoughts on it so far:

• I think there should be more invincibility frames when you get hit. Its really easy to get hit several times before you can react and get away.
• I'd recommend juicing the moment when you take damage some more. Some options to consider would be slowing time down, screen zoom, screen shake, particles, exaggerated animation, and some crunchier sound effects
• Something about stamina doesn't quite feel right to me... I was originally going to just say it needs to regen faster or start regen-ing faster but I'm not 100% sure that's the solution. Maybe start with a slow regen that ramps up over time until full or you input a move.
  I also think there should be something more when stamina is depleted. A "tired" animation, sound effect, or some sort change in the player sprite - something to go along with the depleted stamina bar that's hard to not notice and tells the player they are in a vulnerable state now. This might be enough to fix that "off" feeling I have with the stamina regeneration, but I'm not sure.
• the stunning mechanic could be clearer in some ways - when introduced, it seemed like stunning would happen whenever you kicked after a 3 hit combo. Saying something like "kick when you see a star to stun" would probably convey the mechanic better. Also it's not clear when the window for pulling off a stun closes.
• Some notes on the bird boss's moveset:
  • The spin slash thing he does needs more/ more noticeable anticipation in some way (mostly the stand-alone version, not the version following the ground pound attack). It covers a big area, and I rarely noticed the start up because I was focused on other things on the screen, so it felt like that move could be a  cheap hit sometimes.
  • When the boss retrieves its feathers, it can be hard to tell which ones are being retrieved. Something  like drawing a feather's trajectory on screen a moment before it is retrieved could be an effective way to show where the danger zones are about to be.
  • If this is really going to be the first fight of the game, I'd probably tone down the difficulty a bit.  Difficult is good, but it might be a hard sell if people keep getting stuck in the tutorial.
  • More sound effects! Use sound more to help the player anticipate danger and sell impact. You have a great start with some moves, but others come out completely silent.

This game looks really great but I cannot get past the boss battle. If there was a way to give the player character a buffer after losing health so they can't take too much damage in a row, have their health slowly build back up during combat, or fully/partially restore at the start of each phase, I think that could go a long way to make this a little less frustrating. Or even just a lower difficult setting for people who are more interested in story over combat.

loving every minute of this game though the sound, music, movement, combat, story, animation. loving it. but they are times that bugs start happening like if you keep dashing as you enter the boss room you skip the dialogue and roam around until you went back to the door and times when I load in, my character was sleeping on the left side of the bed like his floating but still can wake up properly so no problem,

suggestion: I HATE THE BLACK FEATHER THAT STUCK TO THE GROUND ESPECIALLY ON HIS SECOND PHASE,  because you get damage when it's on the ground so it's a big ass obstacle which makes it impossible to dodge in his second phase, either remove the get damage when touch or make it stuck on to the wall instead of the ground or I recommend is to make it an explosion instead of a four direction fireball like the small one from the fireball cause there is a long fuse timer, wish there is some way of removing these black feathers like rolling into them or gets destroy from light attacks in one hit. the boss itself was way too hard for beginner, I know this cause I spent a day or two just to finish this guy which should not be this long or maybe I am just bad XD, cause the black feathers on the thirds phase falls almost all the time combine with the faster slam and slice and the fire makes it also an instant death, fire should be shorter serving as a quick attack rather then a obstacle,

good luck on the game :D

btw can I do anything with rocc feathers and the book the lady in the library drop? since the depress guy move somewhere else after you talk to the lady in the library, also I try waiting for rocc to stop choking and I still won when I was about to take a pic of him choking XD