Very glad to see there characters again.

If newgrounds, and by extension, the internet, was filled exclusively with high-quality original abstract works of art similar to yours we'd have a creative utopia, but I guess a glimpse into what can be will suffice.

For now.

Absolutely amazing animation.

Has a very "childhood dream" aesthetic (I guess the youngsters these days call it "vibe"?), reminds me of those Moomins cartoons. I think it's the damp darkened colours, smooth and heavily ambient music and a somewhat silly premise with no overt elements of anything threatening.

Good.

It's rather cute and spry.

The gameplay loop is rather solid. Going around the map and seeking stuff to upgrade your equipment, fight enemies and overall level up before a fight you choose to engage with yourself keeps the game quick and lively. I also like the variety of items with effects and meaningful, palpable stat changes. The vector-based artstyle while generic is executed decently well in the sense of the environment feeling rich and enemies moving about rather naturally, albeit some attacks could use extra animations. The bosses were decent and varied.
I also want to pat you on the back for realizing how the game wouldn't be fun if you could draw aggro of several enemy squads at once so they relent rather easily.

There is quite a lot you could improve upon through. The autoattack system is a bit of a snore overall but is compounded by the fact it seems to be rather janky. The enemy priority is unorthodox and it can be frustrating to have something up in your face and only have the melee attack to handle it, when most enemies outrange you or shoot projectiles. The balancing is odd, where at later stages even after investing all my levels into my HP a generic slime cleanly snapped my head off with a single projectile with no room for me to react because of..

The camera is not great. It had a nasty habit of heavily lagging behind the character, where it would take about 10-15 seconds for it to "catch up" and adjust. This is the most obtrusive issue and I am not entirely sure why it happens.

Unreasonably solid execution.

I really like it! I think it captures the feeling of flunking up a stealth mission and having to desperately escape the pursuit pretty well. I like how the game despite being more akin to a top-down shooter uses stealth mechanics, with enemies quickly forgetting where you were, being able to avoid their line of sight, it took a while for me to get past the aesthetics and understand that this is still a stealth game.

Speaking of the aesthetics, the styalisation is really solid! I like the simplistic red-and-white clean sprites with blood splatters, I think it has a lot of character and appeal due to the amount of well-detailed animation frames.

Now for the sparse criticisms:

The game isn't as easy to "get" as you assumed. It took me a solid 3 minutes to understand that the black.. papers? Folders? Rocks? Are the objectives. Bullets are tiny and WHITE, on WHITE FLOORS, they blend in! Vests are slightly better but still quite hard to notice in a hectic game. I suggest you either add a simple info screen at the start or make them pop out more by animating them slightly or making them outline in red if you desperately need them.

the game is also somewhat buggy. I had clipped through walls, had enemies do so, had the machine gun dude stick his gun through a wall to shoot me once alerted, and sometimes the bullet pickups seemingly did not register.

UPDATE: Most of my criticisms have been addressed by the developer!

I would definitely say the game is.. ambitious, in the best sense of the word?
I can imagine the game is better suited on mobile, from what I can tell from the name.

I have my mixed impressions of your project. I would say there is definitely a palpable amount of effort on display here, from the variety of mechanics to load outs to themed chapters. But I feel like the ambition makes the resources spread a bit too thin.

I did not find the core loop very enjoyable or stimulating. No matter how you slice it (ha-ha) you can't really make a game play of essentially a stripped-down beat-em-up that enjoyable or in-depth. The enemies lack variety, the core mechanics underpinning what you do on a second-by-second basis of just running around and attacking are not that interesting, and also don't really fit the fantasy you are trying to create in my opinion.

The game also has an equally mixed bag when it comes to assets. Despite the simplicity of the gameplay I did not find any bugs or performance problems, so I can tell the game was either robustly coded or rigorously play-tested, which is surprising given just the sheer amount of stress points. The music is also just.. superb, and there is a huge amount of variety in it. However the voice lines.. kinda ruin the entire atmosphere the game is going for. Same could be said for the drawings. I think you could use a more robust style as puppet-like motion and sharp pixels come off as very goofy in a game about serial killers which opts to utilize 3 colors to make the atmosphere super gloomy. It's not that I think you can't make a game with simple sprite graphics but you need it to be consistent with all your stylistic choices.

Overall I'd advice you focus on a more robust core gameplay loop before branching into more mechanics and content additions, as that what carries your game second-to-second. You need a more stable foundation to build upon.

Extremely well-stylized and well-drawn

Well technically DnD is player-driven and you can put whatever but it does fit the setting.

Great composition and colors by the way, although honestly the fireflies seem to clutter up the drawing more than anything.

You should probably add more shading on the skin, the face has basically no color contrast and looks plastic-y.