Extremely well put together entry. I would love to see you ship this with some more polish - some extra variation on the hit SFX would go well for example, same for VFX, but those aren't blockers. Keyboard controls would also go well. Music worked, palette was well chosen, sfx worked, that was all good. The game is on theme, but I wonder if there was other ways of adding "an end is a new beginning" into the game beyond what's here. Congrats! I really enjoyed this gem.
Those are awesome suggestions! I've actually started to incorporate a lot of them in a post-jam build! I'm just waiting for the rating period to end before updating it. As far as working around the theme better, I originally wanted to make the game a bit more like rogue legacy, with some traits that get passed along to your descendants. That got cut as I needed to keep the scope minimal to fit the timeline, but I'm still thinking about how to do something similar to make it more fun... Ideas are welcome!