Other rooms in the dungeons include special challenges and mini-boss fights. A player can only carry one reusable item and one single-use item, replacing it with another if found. The player can collect any number of passive items, whose effects build on previous ones (creating potentially-powerful combinations). Some items are passive some are active and reusable (requiring the player to wait a number of rooms before they can reuse them), and others are single-use items which then disappear. Many items impact the character's attributes (such as speed and the damage and range of their tears) and other gameplay effects, including a character who floats behind the player-character and aids in combat.
Throughout the dungeons, the player will find bombs to damage foes and destroy obstacles keys to open doors and treasure chests and coins to buy items. The character can find items which replenish hearts other items give the character additional hearts, extending their health. The player-character's health is tracked by a number of hearts. The player moves their character around the screen, shooting their tears in other directions the tears are bullets which defeat enemies.
The game is controlled similarly to a multidirectional shooter.
