Well done, I love the artsyle taking from the beat 'em all genre, especially the animations.
The cutscene was really nice too, although I had trouble skipping it when I tried to replay the game. I could skip the animations but the music was still playing with a black screen.
I found the game really difficult too, because of the huge amount of thugs haha, but a really fun experience (I love seeing so polished Game Maker games, great job)!