I've encountered a bug: if an enemy attack somehow skips stage 4 fwoomp on your buddies, they aren't immobilised and can continue to gain. Besides that I'm having a lot of fun with this :) I look forward to the post-jam tweaks and sprites.
That's a bug that I hope I fixed in the updated version! The Game Jam Release will keep all of the bugs that were present on release, obviously, so from now on do use the other version, as that one will be updated!