I know I should work on explaining using the items and title screen better since you're not the only one who made that complaint. I'm not sure how to but I will make it somehow, I'm just hoping after learning it's easier than dealing with menus.
On darkness thing candle helps with it on really dark rooms but it sort of comes down to monitor since it does look different between my laptop and desktop. I'm planning to change how light works overall so hope it'll change the darkness issue on certain monitors.
On doors it started as individual ones for each dungeon tile set because different dungeon walls will have different colors and styling in the end, but I'm making two more readable doors for locked and shut that I can use on every dungeon instead of different style doors that might end up unreadable so it's going to change.
And you can press down to descent faster with the hat on both title and game over screens.
Thanks for your input, I hope you got the sword too.