What a cute art style! I like the blackjack-style risk/reward system that encourages you to spread out as much as you can in order to cover more ground, but you lose time if you're too greedy.
I do feel that the collision boxes in general could have had more work done. I kept bouncing off of Lele and the fire beasts, but when the water stream was diagonal, I had trouble even damaging the fire. When I swapped to maintaining an orthogonal line, I went from being unable to clear level 2 to beating the game first try.
A rather fun game. Good Job!