Hey! I tried out this combat prototype and really enjoyed it!

I usually talk about gameplay/my experience stuff a lot in this section but @adurdin in the previous comment has already said almost all the things I wanted to mention. So, here's a let's play if you want to see a real-life reaction to the game:

A little something I wanted to mention is the fact that the game's ambient sound is too low* in comparison to all the effects of attack sounds, dashing etc.
*I leveled them in post when editing my video

All n' all, I'm looking forward to seeing how the dev's gonna go about this prototype in the future. I really enjoy his pixel/toon art-style choice and retro-ish sound design.

This looks really great!

But I had a few spots of bother with the way it feels (in the standalone version):

1. Couldn't read the prompt text. Had to back up and walk around a couple of times until I could: https://imgur.com/Prbb8b2

2. Can't attack or defend again until animations are 100% complete, despite animations having noticeable time where weapon/shield is very near ready position. Feels "sticky".

3. When coming out of an animation from (2), holding down a button intending to attack/defend as soon as possible doesn't work. I have to release and press the button again. Feels like it's ignoring my input.

4. Bash doesn't defend against a spider's rush attack, even though my shield is between the spider and me.

5. I got confused initially between the spider flashing red and flashing white, and took me a while to work out which was which.

6. I couldn't defeat the ERROR boss ;)

Very fun game. Please finish soon

I will totally enjoy playing this!