BOMBRA

Honestly, this is sick as all fuck. I love practically every part of this game, so I'll go into a bit of detail on that and then give some suggestions.

The little anecdotes are adorable (I'm a sucker for little characterization stuff like that) and the systems have a huge amount of depth. It was amazing to take the time to learn (and break) all the systems.

For my main suggestion, I think this game is most fun (at least for people like me who like to pursue mastery) in a sort of specific specific way:  Play through the game once, going crazy on the resets and getting ridiculous stats. After that first playthrough, go through the game again trying to reach the end in as few resets as possible. This makes figuring out what's important and prioritizing super important and gives purpose to all the cool puzzle mechanics involved! It would also be kind of like solitaire in that there's RNG involved which adds a lot of variety and a sense of slight powerlessness when pursuing a new best time so to speak. I think trying to speedrun the game in this sense adds a lot of depth, including discouraging things like not mindlessly maxing all stats without knowing what they do and things like that.

the shadow boss is funny but i think there are too many combinations to try, I believe 3 is the golden number for choices, this has like 30x30 or something

So I need to preface this by saying I really don't like RPG maker games they are all cookie cutter copy and paste jobs in my opinion. I'm glad I was wrong about that with this one.

I honestly did not want to play this game as reasoned above but I gave it a fair shot anyways and I'm really glad I did. I was immediately hit by FOMO upon knowing I had to pick a bunch of ingredients and reach a ton of text and recipes and then somehow succeed.

Suffice to say I was pleasantly surprised by the gameplay loop. The fact that I could take my time and collect a bunch of ingreidents every round and focus on increasing stats for speed and harvesting was such a good idea and I'm super glad it was there so I could build up a proper arsenal of bombs.

The problem is by the time I actually felt ready to fight the boss it died after 1 bomb throw hahahaha. I didn't even think I had risen my stats that much it was maybe.. 5-6 loops or so before I properly went for it?

Still it was a really good gameplay loop I just wish there was more ways to figure out what worked/didn't work without feeling like I was wasting all my resources by testing stuff on the boss. In the end I basically dumb brained my way through it by just getting as much as I could and making myself insanely strong by accident.

Oh well, still had a lot of fun with it!

This scratched an rpg itch for me, really enjoyed it!  Would have like a better interface for collecting/retaining recipes, turned the game into a bit of memory challenge.  Wound up just doing screen grabs and pasting into a word document.  Felt like a bit of a puzzle game, I didn't mind the learning curve too much.  Great concept-really liked this one!

I really enjoyed playing this! I love the quirky aesthetic and the idea is a good one. It did have a pretty steep learning curve right out of the gate. Personally most of my trouble just came from there being so many option to start with and the fight is super unforgiving if you pick the wrong things. That's not necessarily a bad thing as there are people who really like that type of gameplay, but it is something to be aware of. The gameplay is really solid though and the controls felt super intuitive. Nice job!

I think there's a bit too much information thrown at the player at first, but I like the idea of the replayability built into the game. Good job, keep making games!

Pretty fun, although I don't know if I could see myself replaying it as much as I would need to, to beat it. I'd definitely like to be able to used WASD controls, or remap the controls to my preferences. But all things considered good job.

bro the game is fantastic and well made but my stupid ass couldnt beat it, not your fault tho

good game I guess but kind of wild to pick up random flowers and stuff when I have zero clue what they are used for or what potions even exist or what they do.