Sorry to put it so bluntly, but it's true. I played the demo on stream at the urging of some mates. And while the Pixel art is delightful and cityscape wonderful. The actual gameplay was a slog. I've played a million indie games like it and I basically disengaged throughout the whole demo. Even having finished it, I struggle to think of any selling point or hook for the game on the gameplay side. The only appeal really was the art. It's not challenging enough to be satisfying to clear, not complex enough to be rewarding to master, not obscure enough to be a puzzle to solve. It's just... another zelda-like. Even the reduce enemies to exactly zero wasn't much of a puzzle, given your starting attacks are 2 and 3 damage.

If you tune the final games difficulty high as hell, add some more puzzles and interesting mechanics, or even just cull the gameplay and turn it into more of a walking simulator, all would give it more appeal in my mind. It just needs something on the gameplay side, even if that something is less gameplay overall, when at the moment it has nothing.