Cappi: Starbound Saga

I’d like to appreciate the game, but it has so many different things that irks me gameplay wise.

• The knockback is insane, it made me stuck atop of a boss or knock me to bottomless pits, which kills any prospect for a long combo
• The enemies can blend with the scenery and they don’t have a clear animation for their bullets, therefore being too sudden and making a dodge impossible unless you memorize the exact timing
• hazards like spikes are blending wayy too much. Or the spikes are brown or the corals looks harmless
• the physics all around fells sluggish, like the bounce move not bouncing correctly or the jumping feeling underwhelming unless you have the electro power up or something
• the Wario Land-style of running is not really nailed, as running makes you vulnerable and the only way to be like that is spinning, but with a crappy limit that made the character dizzy. Add a meter like with the air dash or let me spam that
• the parrying is done poorly, even if it’s done like Pizza Tower. If you are afraid to spam that move, you can do either the following a) add a number of visible charges with a short cooldown b) add attacks that can’t be parried by having another type of colour flashing the enemies
• the dialogues moves way too fast in cutscenes. Slow down or let me skip them manually
• Three hitpoints is too much little in a game when you kinda have to get reckless and the safe strategy is counterefficient to the point system
• add a mean to boost speed, especially if you plan to have an enemy to run from
• anyway, the screen shaking from that challenge level kept doing when I left the stage and the main game

I know this is a demo, but I have to tell this before it’s too late. These suggestions and style are nice, but a bad or unpolished gameplay can ruin it permanently.

Thanks for reading it and keep it up.

Good game! There's some issues with it though, and I want to address them before the game releases.

• Why does a tiny caterpillar hurt you when running????
• Not that much of an issue, but could you move the camera a little further forward when running at full speed please?
  
• The miniboss music...
• The new win animation is cool, but it could use slightly more bounciness.

I don't want this comment to just be complaining though, so here are some thing I like about it

• The artstyle's charming!
• I like the character designs!
• The intro cutscene isn't bad! (Though, the shaking on "AND??" feels odd)