Good morning! Thank you so much for such a well thought out reply.
First off, what an amazing score! Great job :D
I'm definitely a fan of more mini games! I had the exact same thought as you on the last day of the jam. I really wanted to get at least one or two more in, with a few others being planned, but sadly it wasn't top priority for submission. I couldn't agree more that having more games would have lead to a higher skill bar, meaning that it wasn't as likely to go infinite with the game. One of the planned ones was actually a whole system issue, impacting the heart rather than the limbs, adding that extra layer of difficulty.
There is a theoretical maxima to the game in that after a certain point, the time between issues reaches a zero cooldown time, but given scores like yours and another of 12k, I think that it may have been better to have shortened that time.
In terms of arcade, I definitely wouldn't call this an arcade game. The mini games were taking inspiration from the wildcard to have a sub game within the game. Although this is an incredibly loose definition and I don't want to take away from those who worked to create awesome games within their games, it was my interpretation of the wildcard that I felt I could personally work with in the timeframe that I had for the jam. But I really love your points on this and will take it into consideration when I extend the game further.
Also sorry for the music being only twelve seconds and that you played long enough to be able to time it, haha. This was my first time trying to make the music myself, so as you can tell, I didn't focus a lot of time on it.
Seriously, thank you so much for all of the really useful feedback! This is going to really help when considering where I want to take the game post jam. I'd already known that I wanted to add more minigames, but I hadn't thought critically about what long game means, so this has given me something to chew on! Thanks so much!