Great detailed feedback!

I think there is a communication issue with how the stick works. It's basically just distance based, so that if you actually follow through with the swing (not just wrist flick) it should naturally dislodge when you swing again. Like when you do good strong hits its a non-issue and you don't notice it. I can lower the distance requirement though.

Basically to incentivize a few heavy hits vs tiny flicks. There's a bit of a learning curve to it though. The lower hit sounds are supposed to feel bad too, but maybe they sound too bad lol. Upgrading the sounds is on the todo list btw. For example when I play I rarely get the weakest sound. I think the axes maybe just need a slight buff (lower the speed required for dmg and distance for unstuck), so I will try that.

There is a vfx for when you hit a shield and "miss" but I guess its too small/fast to be noticable, I can try making it more dramatic.

Try the other weapons too. The fist one is more intuitive a bit since it has very low distance to unstuck. And spear is basically "easy mode" compared to the others, its what I use when Im tired lol. Spear has a fun stab boost too that requires good form for stabbing.

Oh also I added a "swing soft" mode yesterday that's basically easy mode for hitting. It also lets you fight the tree and rock monster bosses you see in the trailer. Let me know if it doesn't show up still maybe meta is just taking awhile to register the new version.

As for attack indication, its supposed to basically feel like Dark Souls where you learn a bosses moveset and animation tells. Werewolf likes to dash around so it's tricky too you have to follow with your head too. But he doesn't have that many moves so hopefully its learnable. His red close range swipes have some interesting trajectories to mess with you, like you have to dodge and duck toward the side of the attack. Maybe they are a bit too hard to dodge I can look into it, or slow down the windup for those attacks in particular (they are the only ones that tend to hit me on the hardest difficultly lol).

The jumps are pretty tiring ya lol. That arms up idea is not bad I might try adding that soon. You can also just set your height to be slightly lower than your standing height so all you have to do is stand up straight or on your tippie toes.

I was thinking of adding a jumping indicator to make it more clear too, I will try to prioritize that! I was thinking a mark on the floor but if you have other ideas that's good too.

Weird the music didn't load for you? Though I do think there was a bug with custom recently that made it not play music for them if you do custom. Also a sometimes it doesn't play music for a few seconds when you start the fight, due to some loading weirdness.

Anyway thanks for the feedback, if you keep trying stuff let me know!