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Hey, was really interesting to play!

I haven't beaten it yet, I've gotten to the falling spikes part and kept dying. Part of why I think that part is very tough is that the collision box for the player seems to be a few pixels wider than the player sprite, thus making it tough to judge. For example, I could be on the edge of a platform but it looks like the character is floating next to it.
On my last play-through, I got stuck where the snake and heart are under the stairs, but I see you're aware of that soft-lock.
Lastly, there were a few times when I would kill an enemy, and they would explode but I would still take damage after the fact. I'm assuming that this is because when the die their sprite animation changes but they are still technically there? This is made tougher with the throwing knife's distance being fairly short. 
I had this issue in my platformer DE '22 and solved it by giving the enemy actors a local variable named "Deadly". When set to TRUE, it would cause the player to take damage On Hit. When set to FLASE, it wouldn't trigger the collision script. So as soon as the enemy is killed, before the death animation for it happens, I set "Deadly" to false so that the player isn't unnecessarily hit.

I enjoyed my time with the game so far and liked how diverse the level design was without feeling confusing  or inconsistent! The progression of the story as you moved up the castle really made it feel like I was on a journey which was fun :)

Edit - I might've missed something, but what was the tie in with the "time" theme?