Thank you for the great feedback! I do agree that we let the shadows piece of the theme untouched a little, we had a plan for that but ran out of time for that sadly, you know how it is.
The stirring mechanic is very difficult to use reliably, I was going to add a counter above the cauldron that tells you how much you have stirred while you are doing, yet again. out of time. PRO TIP: you can move the spoon over the cauldron once and then release it to add just 1 to the number, you can do this as many times as needed to achieve the correct amount of stirs as the inputs will stack.
Finally, I'm sorry that you got confused by the items names, if you hover over the center of them for ~ 0.5 seconds, a tool tip will appear that tells you the name of the item, and a funny description.
Again thank you so much for your feedback!