Intresting take on the theme! I find the control scheme a little bit weird to adjust at first, jumping with space it's just muscle memory at this point i guess lol, nice job!
I had space at the start, but then by including attack and defend it made more sense to me to change, you can use the gamepad if it's more comfortable (even though the top buttons doesn't have an input, I should fix that!). Anyway, thank you for playing!