The knives were designed by KV to hit you if you didn’t immediately get out of their way, but can be dodged. There’s only one I think that is virtually instant speed.
Yeah, the game for whatever reasons, just didn’t take to optimizing very well and I would like to explore the issue as part of post launch care. So especially on the average to lower machine mine included, it will run a bit slower than liked.
Thanks for letting me know about the glitches, it sounds like an issue with either the entity or something related to the finale. We’ve already got some fixes in the pipeline for after the jam.