interesting game, but i feel that its a little too hard and unfair. The groundwork is there for a solid game! The meditating mechanic is pretty cool, and the movement feels alright, but with some additional tweak needed. I also like that you get pushed around when attacked, its a nice detail!
The problem, however, is that the the best strategy in this game is to fight an enemy, wait until your stamina and health goes all the way back up, then rinse and repeat.
The enemies deal so much damage that you basically have to fight them one by one along with meditating beforehand to deal extra damage, and when you defeat them, you have less than 1/3rd of your hp when you had full health earlier.
Plus, meditating heals you slowly, which im actually fine with on its own! Its only a problem when combined with the other issue, because it really slows down the gameplay.
Personally, the enemies should deal a lot less damage than they currently do, because you cant really beat one without meditating first. Not only would it feel more fair to fight others, but it allows the possibility of having two or more samurai enemies fighting you at once, which could be interesting!
I think it would also be nice if meditating was a little faster so you dont wait too long. A nice way to get this done would be to make health regenerate faster the longer you meditate. A simple risk-reward mechanic! (Stamina would also decrease faster with health regen)
Honestly, the rest is perfectly fine! The biggest problem to me was the absurd enemy damage, but everything else was good. There was a bug where I couldnt sprint towards the bottom right for whatever reason, but its more of an annoyance if anything.
TL;DR: Enemies are powerful in a super unfair way. However, the rest of the game was well done, so good job, for real life!