I think you smashed all the possible ways that a game could be good, great art, great sounds design, great idea, great theme. This feels like a full release game that found it's way into the Jam. Amazing work all of you!!! Also I appreciate the easy mode. I had a crash after acquiring the 3rd ability gem (probably my fault for hammering all the keys tryin to see what the ability would do) and had to restart. The contrast between the 2 difficulties was really night and day. Much more my speed but I appreciate that the regular mode was so difficult. Literally the only minor nitpick that I have is that sometimes you can get wombo comboed by a couple things in a row which doesn't feel great esp on the difficulty where you can only take like 3 hits.
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Yes, it can get very difficult at times. Was really hard to test all the changes we were making to the design near the end, but I appreciate that someone found and used the easy mode! I had forgotten to merge it to my git repo with 10 minutes left and couldn't figure out why it wasn't showing up in the game itself, so had to scramble to re-upload after realizing my silly mistake. :P But in any case, it was a last minute add because I was struggling, too! Thank you so much for such kind words.