Last One Standing

Hey! I see a good potencial on this! The only thing that i would change would be to make a continues game. Instead of clearing a level and start all over again, pause the game to select the upgrade and continue to fight the enemies. 

Other than that, good graphics and good music!

Keep up the nice work! 

Having played some more, here's my thoughts:
A lot more fun with the new changes. Having a few more coins under the belt made other tactics more viable, though a lot of them still end up dying to being too slow near level 30. It doesn't feel like I need to use skill to dodge the enemies other than slightly dodging their bullets, since they will home at me at increasing speed, with either me outspeeding them, or them being faster than me with no way to dodge. 

There might be use for a "slow down" button against the ox boss, some of its patterns are plain impossible when you have a high move-speed.

The game is missing some basic features like progress being saved, and no volume sliders. Saving in particular is very annoying to not have.

It was a lot of fun finding all the different hidden abilities, though I wish it was possible to see which ones I've managed to find (and possibly what I did to unlock them). Specifically in-between runs, being able to see all I've unlocked ever

Some of the stat boosts don't match up with what they do, all attack speed boosts for example only give 0.1a/s each. Piercing swords also doesn't seem to work, or doesn't scale with projectile damage. Permanent bleed doesn't stack with upgrade bleed.

Lucky requirements are a bit unclear to me, it feels like I sometimes get it with less stat up upgrades than other times, but might just be me remembering wrong. Anti-projectile *can* work, but only if you have the speed to back it up. Oxe boss projectiles seemed to require a much much higher amount than the rest?

A cool prototype.

I like the sprite work, and the general concept. Definitely saving this for later, I can tell a lot of time went into this and it has a lot of potential.

I think bloodsplosions should trigger on every kill, not just sword kills. Would widen build variety, and every now and then you could see a couple chain explosions. 

The invulnerable, unparryable red projectiles feel really bad. Maybe there's something I missed and I can destroy/parry them, but not having that as an option really damages the idea of using parry and just unfurling their own damage back at them. 

Both boss fights feel like they could use more work on telegraphing attacks. They feel distinct from each other, but for the most part the telegraph for all the attacks is just kinda sitting there and flashing a bit. 

The biggest critique in my opinion, is the performance though. The game feels super choppy, and that harms everything about the experience. If the performance could be bumped up somehow to feel smooth and fluid, it would immediately pay dividends on fun factor.

Fun, though it feels way too slow to gain coins. Doesn't feel like my progress is rewarded since I don't seem to get any bonus coins even when getting to floor 17 before dying on my second run (other than boss coins).

The one boss I've fought so far has been fun, but other than that the game has primarily been "run in one direction and hope I get good enough upgrades to kill the enemies before they catch up with me". Even if I primarily get strength and sword upgrades, it eventually becomes too risky to fight them head-on because of the low range of the sword compared to their movement speed.

Similarly, anti-projectile upgrades become kinda useless. They're only useful if I do close-combat fighting, but if I upgrade-anti-projectile skills, then I don't have enough attack-damage to do that. And if both me and the enemies are running faster than the projectiles it makes no sense to block or parry them.

Bleed is a bit OP right now, I would recommend making it lose stacks gradually. I like the max 10 bleed damage per tick on bosses, it works well with not making the fight over instantly, and still gives a sense of usefulness of upgrading bleed when I get a speed boost.

Contact damage by enemies is way too high, you should probably have a limit on how fast the same enemy can damage you again. Right now if they're faster than you they end up damaging you 3 times in half a second which just feels too punishing. Right now I mostly die from not spotting an enemy before I run into it, even with the 0.25 grace period upgrade.

All in all I had fun playing, I might try it again later. It'll be interesting to see if the permanent rewards end up making me too OP due to stacked upgrades, or if it'll just make the early-game faster.