Zayra The Lightning Scarlet Prototype (2nd Version)

In short, very nice mood and visuals, but gameplay is exceptionally frustrating in so many ways xD

In long:

The good:

• The art direction is very good. It has a very NES vibe to it.
• The animations and larger resolution arts are well rendered and I wish there was more interactions like the suplex ability to show things off.
• I like the horny, but I feel it's in the weird middle ground where there isn't enough of it to count as a lewd game, but there is enough of it to push off players that may not want it (that powerup gain animation, though). May need to pick the side.
• Sound effects all feel good, and the music choice as well (even if you didn't make the music yourself)
• The controls and platforming are responsive for the most part, but certain mechanics need work, as mentioned below.

The bad:

• Why is the only upgrade I get a more risky way to instakill enemies that I can already kill instantly with the blade?
• The pistol is not worth using. When it can hurt enemies, it's too weak and a sword works better, and where I wish I had it because the enemy is too dangerous to get close to, they have shields.
• The green walker thing that was mentioned by the guy below indeed led me to just baiting it out of the way and whacking the walls away. I can manage to kill it properly, but the dodge window is too tight to do reliably, and I need the health for later.
• The lightning power up usage is at the mercy of your pickups, and it would make more sense to get a bit of the gauge when killing enemies. It lasts too short anyway, and only benefits being speed (potentially also damage) and bullet immunity, it doesn't have too much of a utility with most enemies charging at you or using lasers.
• There should be more of a visual indicator that you are hurting the enemies/walls. The same type of indicator you have at the end boss with the lasers in the corners (the little poof). If I had sound off, I wouldn't know those destructible walls were destructible. At least you show when pistol is useless.
• Sometimes, controls would get stuck where I would keep moving right (mostly happened in the boss fight, and usually just after I revived) and if it happened on the wall, I couldn't jump off at all.
• Would be nice to have a pause button
• Wall jump height/speed is very small compared to the regular jump, feeling very un-intuitive.
• There should be a way to get off the wall without jumping upwards where danger may be (holding down and jumping to drop maybe).
• I didn't like the boob pushing minigame, because me and my keyboard don't like button mashing xD
  (would have preferred if it was timing based)
• Sometimes in stage 1-4 it is hard to tell which parts of the environment are walls and which are not. May be a tileset issue?
• Font is the only high resolution thing in the game, so it stands out. In my experience, low resolution fonts are a challenge to fit, but if you do it good, it will help the mood.
• That boss fight was very reliant on random chance due to the lack of options the player has. All I can do is hope he won't charge into me at high speed while bullets block my escape paths. I can't reflect the bullets, my hitbox is huge, my weapons do nothing, and all I can hope is he hits the lasers in the corner more often than me (I did beat him though, but I did not have fun doing it)
• Credits/extra page could really use a back button xD

All in all, there is potential here, but I wish frustrating gameplay was the least Ninja Gaiden thing about it :p

Here are my suggestions:

1) We might need checkpoints starting around 1-4. That green walker is a pain, both to get to and fight. I mostly run from it and try to get through the blocked doorway rather than fighting it. Also, I would look at the passage right after. I feel like the mines are too close together (but I could also just be really bad at the game.)

2) Maybe more clear means to heal the character as well. Keep up the cool pixel art, though. I love the feel of the game, even if I get frustrated. NES Castlevania type vibes.

3) I'd also suggest having an "up" and "down" control for attacking, whether with the gun or the blade. Also, "up" would possibly help with the green walker and floating eyes.

Otherwise, I like the design and feel of the game, and it could be potentially played in Opera GX browser games, as I'm pretty sure you can set age restrictions on it as well.