Played around a bit, although I didn’t manage to finish it. Graphics are pretty sweet and the simplistic menu animations work nicely. Burst out laughing when I hit the gong for the first time, well done ahaha I think the controls are quite unique and definitely something that should be explored further, however I also found them to be quite quirky. Turning the boat right seemed unnecessarily difficult and I would perhaps suggest for a split of the drum in half (with the left half turning the boat left and the equivalent for the right) instead of the triple split currently in place.
Concerning the first race, I have a couple things that I didn’t find very appealing: the first one being that burning my opponent made me lose the race (why though, if attacking is valid?) and the second one being that approaching the finish line from the right didn’t seem to trigger the end of the race, I had to retry the race and approach the finish line from the left (is this intended or a bug?). In the second race I could kill enemies, which was nicer, but due to the difficulty in the controls I couldn’t really navigate the boat well enough to finish it.
Either way, this seems like a game that can be expanded upon, so I’d like to see future versions of it, if you decide to continue developing it.