Thanks for playing, and for the feedback :)
Totally agree on how it should have been done, will be playing with getting something like that working out of jam time. I'd already hit my learning limit for this jam, which I think is a good thing!
I've had a go with getting gamepad support working on my previous games, works locally but never on Itch (also win11, firefox), I'm not sure what I'm missing and would be very happy to support gamepads in the future.
I think limited breadcrumbs would work great on a full game as a difficulty setting, something like limit it to your last run on a harder difficulty.
And yep that's my go at an old school game style hall of the mountain king.