Seeing the premise I was kind of worried about physics jank, but it honestly works really well and i never had any issues getting on the ladder or climbing it. Props on that.
I also liked the cute character art.
I do wish the combat and ladder mechanics interacted more. As it is, the only real interaction is that you can use the ladder to box in or walk over enemies, but the level design doesn't really enable it. It feels like you're really locked in to either combat mode or ladder mode.