I wish I were better at these sorts of games so I could do it justice, but you folks really knocked this out of the park. This game is authentically PC-98 in feel and mood-- right down to the frustration. (I do think something was wrong with the hitbox of the swing; sometimes the timing felt off and I would die. Every time I would get hit by the ball vertically trying to swing it up, I'd get hit again and die again, it was a whole to-do.) But my minor skill issues do not get in the way of how perfectly you folks handled the assignment. Art? on point. Music? On point. Design? On point. Gameplay? Definitely on point.
I think this will be a contender for best game of the Jam.