Thanks for playing our game and glad you liked it!
Yes the theme got cut unfortunately. The idea was the staff is malfunctioning like wrong aim, or self damage spells etc.
Load times I cannot say anything about it but even we did a lot of optimization it can be surely done better. But 3D is also hard for that and we also provided a lot of settings which might help you. (Not sure you tried them out in the menu with Esc)
I like the idea of putting it into one big game. Still even with those 2 games it already had different teams, quality and other stuff. The Pharaoh is some sort of my preferred Jam Character now and will continue his journey whenever I have to make the design.