Thank you so much for your feedback, and for taking the time to check out my game! It means a lot to me!
Yeah, when I originally had the idea for only dealing damage "on the edge" - I thought it'd be cool, but it ended up not feeling nearly as significant as I wanted it to! Definitely something I would have tweaked more heavily if I had the time, haha!
And yeah, I think I definitely under-estimated the difficulty of the sideways plague attack - it's really, really hard to judge that kind of thing for a game jam, but I'm definitely going to be tuning it down afterwards!
Thanks again! :)