Maybe add a UI element for the health, it would add a lot of helpful information to the player.
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I know, that's why I don't wanna add it, you have to play all the time as if you are gonna die next hit, I think it's exciting, what I'd have liked to add is different idle animations that change with your health, make the main character look exhausted when you lost half of your lives and even more, maybe nervous or taking a break and sitting down, when you are almost died.