Really appreciate the feedback! The plan for the game was to make the map a bit larger so that you would have to use the checkpoint system a bit more and force players to decide on wasting their max health pool for less of a death penatly but ultimately the time constraint killed me a bit. Also I was more concerned with making the game easy enough rather than ungodly difficult for the sake of the mechanic.
I loved that you found a sequence breaking bug in the game, when I read it I got a big smile thinking back at seeing the speedruns at gdq.