Jenny the Witch

Game's got style in spades and the battle system is really nice once you get into the flow of it. Highly recommended :3

After a very short first play i liked what i had experienced so far! Cant wait to see and experience some more

cool game

too much annoying platforming with very slippery character and not enough combat music

it's like if the team that made gunstar heroes was publishing one for the gamecube after playing touhou and reading warhound. a clean hour and a half or so of beating the bolts out of a generous variety of robot guys set in the same universe as catbird's other game, steel carnelian. absolutely recommend picking this up for the $7 and giving it a few runs postgame support to increase replayability is planned but was not implemented at the time of review

Neat little action game with a cool aesthetic and enjoyable combat broken up by some light platforming and the occasional story beat. The melee attacks and dashes have some hefty recovery times, and your ranged weapon does low damage and slows you a lot, but you're in a durable mech, so you're free to tank some damage. The game incentivizes you to focus less on dodging everything, and more on managing resources. You've got a missile volley to recover shields, ultra moves that can recover health, regenerating shields if you can avoid damage for several seconds. Even the enemy health bars are tactically useful, since you can soften up an enemy with a ranged attack and know when they're going to be weak enough to finish off with a melee combo (handy, since your combo is great at stunlocking small enemies, but has horrific recovery, making it dangerous if you fail to finish them off). It reminds me of PS2-era games [affectionate], where the combat could be a bit clunky, but the clunk would force more strategic play. The game is set in an underground megastructure, and while it's a lot of concrete brutalism, some of the environments are striking in their scale, and work well with the chunky visuals. Although the game is short (2~3 hours) and doesn't include a ton of narrative, what's there is compelling. It's got a bit of an 00's-era hacker-cringe vibe that feels pretty lighthearted at first, but ratchets up a lot over the short runtime. It's a very stylish game.