Hiii!
Thank you for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
What you described there is most likely what happened haha, we didn't run into this while playtesting at all so it hadn't crossed my mind to put in the fix (an oversight, unfortunately :D) and I'm sad to hear it has softlocked people while on good runs!
Perhaps, after the voting period ends, I'll drop in a quick hotfix + hitbox and shop fixes while at it, but no guarantees!
Also, thank you for your kind words! ^^