This is really cool! It reminded me a lot of Dredge, but also had the top-down shooter part, giving it a more original flair. 

The controls were smooth, and the visual effects were nice. The sound design was solid throughout.

I think the lowlight of this game is the inconsistency of the sprites used at different parts of the game. It felt like there were a handful of styles being mixed. (As somebody with no art skills, I do not take lightly that it is quite difficult to make a game look good.)

Overall though, this has been one of my favorite games of the jam. Nice work :)

A very strange game. I loved it!

The minimal art style was nice, helped with the chill fishing vibe :D

This is awesome. I always wanted to make a fishing game as well and you managed to put everything into it: a story and good atmosphere, satisfying mechanics and great visual style and audio. All round amazing!

I like how minimalistic this is, with no clutter. It goes straight to its basic mechanics without hassle, and I think they are already quite complex por su a simple game (fishing, world travel, inventory management).

I found interesting that you used growing-and-disappearing squares to make the player feel that he's walking over water. It's such a small but meaningful detail... Also, onces the rod is being used, suddenly drawing the vertical depth was also a very comic-like way to resolve it; quite cool! Another detail I appreciated was to realise that fish had a given size, as you don't know this until the inventory shows up.

It is a chill, cozy, small game to get relaxed. The minigame with the rod combines sound with action, which multiplies the feeling of the actions. The deeper you go, the more you hear the thread going. Every time you try to catch it, the more clicks you listen. This might sound trivial but, as they taught me once, games must have sound or they render into lifeless moving images.

Its good and relaxing. It would be nice if the hook moved litttle faster. 

Can you play and rate mine too. Thank you. 

https://itch.io/jam/acerola-jam-0/rate/2582496

I like the asthetic, it's a chill experience!
I also like the controls for capturing the fish, they feel simple but fresh and rewarding

Music is relaxing too :)

If i had one criticism, it's that the fish hook moves a bit too slow.

I definitely was not expecting that boss fight, that caught me off-guard :P

thats actually a nice game its very cozy, i like the art style and the dialog system, keep up the good work wish you all the luck :D 

I liked the character designs and the music is very relaxing!

The fishing hook should just be a bit faster though, but it's okay since fishing is not the focus of the game. Control scheme is a little jumpy, but overall it's a cool entry for the jam! Also, congrats on practicing the pixel art, seems like most people liked it!

Comfy game ! Very nice and cute fish design.
The control scheme is a bit awkward and I wish that pressing down would accelerate the hook a biiiiiit faster ! 

The game is looking nice. Styx stands out as character design. It differs a lot from the "rectangle on a stick" of the stick figures.

I like the weird story, and I got the bad ending trying to figure out what happens if you give sombody a fish they don't want to. Seems like one can not say no to the oblivion juice. The game tells me this is a bad ensing, but I don't think oblivion would be so bad.