Hi Wenderly Games! Thanks for the great feedback :)
I agree, the accuracy does make it quite difficult + only shooting infront of you. I was trying to plan a way to make this intuitive, but as Pico-8 only natively supports arrow key + two action button input I was having a hard time. I planned on making the X button a secondary attack that had a homing-missile like behavior, but didn't add it due to time constraints. I also wanted coins to exist and you would be able to upgrade accuracy + health + damage, etc but I cut that too :(
I really appreciate the input :D