In my case, the books that made me love reading were inspirational or business-oriented because my parents obliged me to read a book every two months at least. At the start I hated it but I quickly become fond of them and started reading a lot more on my own. Now reading some articles about self-improvement became one of my hobbies.

Things like this make me question what choices humanity has made in order to get to this one point.

This is incredibly polished for your first game! everything looks spectacular!
Though my biggest problem with the game are the bullets, they are hard to see and way to fast to even react to, which makes every fight feel like a contest of who has the most health.
Also the surrender and leave option crashes the game, I think it's some kind of quit the game option for desktop versions so you should get rid of that.

A really good puzzle game! really like how you implemented the body-switch mechanic in this one. My only problem was that the laser lock-on mechanic wasn't really explained and I needed to read the description of the game. Having the mouse be still is not really intuitive and I feel you should change it with it locking on when pressing a button or maybe by holding the click.

I really dig the style of the game and your art is really good, there's also a lot of interesting ideas like the mask system, maybe add some more as drops of monsters or something. Still, I feel the game to be really troubled.

My main problem is that the character feels really stiff. First of all because every attack you have has a really big startup, let's compare it to Castlevania since you reference it, Simon's whip does have a delay but the attack happens in about two or three frames, just when you relax your finger after tapping the button, so you aren't stuck in place for too long. The same occurs with the gun, when you shoot you stand there too long and it really dissuades you from using it.
It's also really annoying how you can't jump-attack because it really limits your options and perhaps you could let the player startup the attack mid-air like Castlevania.

I'm no music expert so what I say most likely will sound like nonsense but I really like the guitar-synth sound you have in this song it really adds texture(? probably not the term I'm looking for). Still I think is pretty good.

Pretty good.

Also, the start of the track reminds me of songs SNES games would have

You know the speech and the music are really inspiring

Sorry to hear that you ended up less motivated, still the final result was pretty good. Hopefully you manage to regain your drive to continue because you make some good art.

your pixel art is really nice, I really like the combination of colors and the details are well done.
But the red exclamation is kinda out of place and sticks out way too much and some leaves look could look better, still the art itself is nice.

I like the color pallete you choose, the red pops out and the blue is very pleasant to look at.