If not, it makes sense for the crosshair to drift offscreen). That may have been entirely intentional, and I can understand the reasoning behind it, but it came across as a tad inconsistent (I haven't tested it, but I wrote this assuming you can get shot while aiming. I'll get this one out of the way first: it threw me off a little that the crosshair didn't rebound off of the side of the screen, since the bullet icon bounces between the edges of the first gauge. The audiovisual presentation is consistent and appropriate for the theme (with a couple of minor exceptions), and I appreciate the addition of difficulty options, even if there aren't a whole lot of distinguishing features between them. I only have a couple of tiny criticisms with this one. I went in expecting something akin to the aptly-titled 'quick draw' minigame from Kirby's Adventure, you know, a 'push the button faster than the other guy' sort of game, but I was pleasantly surprised to find a bit of added depth in there. Maybe that makes choosing the difficulty too annoying, but I think it's an idea at least worth trying out. Like press it once and then press it again to choose the difficulty. I know that it seems like a dumb comment, but part of the charm of the game is that it does so much with just the spacebar. I'm always a big fan of mechanics bleeding over into menus, so I think a really cool way you could teach the player about your game is to use a little bar similar to the bullet-bar to let them choose their difficulty at the start. Speaking of the difficulty thing, I don't like that it's the only thing that uses the mouse. You also can't change your difficulty after you lose. For something more nitpicky, the blood particles go over the bullet-bar-thing, so if you're gonna polish this up definitely fix that. I like the detail you added to the hat flying off, that's really fun.

Speaking of that sound effect, it seems like it only plays around 1/3-1/2 of the time it should, other times the cue is missed and it's completely silent (other than the background music). I think the sound mixing could definitely use some work, it's a bit loud, and some of the sound effects that are generic boops can probably get replaced by 8 bit gunshots (like the one you use for shooting) or other, more thematically appropriate sound effects. I really like that you used different contexts to make the single-button requirement more interesting! I've already told you how much I like this game on discord, so I'll go right to criticisms.

Quickdraw ny