As a dev, I'm sure we all have encountered this where the game feels too easy to us but is actually not that easy haha. I don't think the main player's look should be different tbh. Like I think the number of the 'crowd' could be more gradually increased as opposed to now & maybe when you kill & have the cooldown you can add more 'visibility' to the crowd. (the player vs NPC look during that period only) just my two cents haha