Presentation is great from the beginning, great polish. Cool cursor and cutting animation, it was a nice surprise that the same screen and cursor is used for actual gameplay.
"Cutting" (I guess not killing, or slaying) monsters feels very nice with sfx and animation / particles / UI feedback.
One thing that bothers me is that I could type max 5 characters into the highscores name - although I wasn't good enough to be in top 5 anyway ;)
Great job!