blessed be the orb-bro feedback. the colors are weird since i tried doing hue-based color mods instead of flat color based mods. it looked great for most items, but for many it just looked awful, so i reverted and forgot to turn on the item specific edge cases. oops.
the balance is still a bit off, but i think i'm inching closer to what i want. we'll see how it goes.
the death and item drop animations are a bit too fast on purpose, since i don't want them taking valuable screenspace during a hectic battle - a slow animation might cover an enemy ready to strike. they can surely use more tweaking, though.
thank you for playing!