Thank you! I'm happy you enjoyed the boss fight, took me a while to get it right.
Yeah, the story is definitely the main focus of the game, but I get what you mean when you say it breaks up the pace. I was originally planning to have a higher gameplay-to-story ratio, but the story stuff took longer than I expected and I didn't want to cut anything from it, so it left me with a lot less time to add gameplay stuff. I'll keep this in mind for the future. :)