Ah cheers so much for taking the time to play all the way through, I really appreciate it! :D The battle system was poorly explained at the start I'm afraid, my fault. Basically if there is a shield up ^, you can press < or > to go around it, all you have to do is press where the shield *isn't* but that's not exactly what I said in the tutorial! Pressing down activates the axe, which if not charged results in a fail. It was worded poorly, I'll fix it as soon as the voting is over next week. Also pressing the arrows to start is SO un-obvious, thank you for working it out! I'd been building the game like crazy for days and it didn't occur to me at all that people wouldn't know to press the arrow keys before they've played the game? Oof! But yeah thanks for playing I'm glad you had some fun! :D