I am honestly astounded by this, very good game, gameplay is a little slow to take off, but the music and the chill vibe more than make up for it.
I would love for the essence to be inside the animals, for instance with the lobster, it was sort of offset to the lobster between his claws, and when the sprite flips, it's basically in his tail. Consistency and keeping it inside would be a nice enhancement.
Fantastic work though, I'll be back to complete this once I've been through a few more games.