"my personal goals for this jam were to make a game that was Juicy to play, fun and not unbalanced."
And I would say that's achieved ^^.
I'm pretty bad with thoses kind of game so I only went to level 4 but the job is well done, it felt way easier (balanced?) than the version I played during the jam :) (because at least I didn't keep dying in level 2 :D).