Hey thank you very much for your reply. I agree with you that the gameplay has been slower than the rest of the game, this is due to the large sprites which take considerably longer to make and animate than other games would. This does however mean the main character and enemies have a lot of extra detail.
Those ideas are very good and there are plans for them, the recent update on my patreon has included a new "Rolling" animation, which you can use to dodge enemy attacks.
Thank you for playing the game.