This game was great! The art was really cute and the music was also really nice. (Quick rant about the music: I really like the percussion and the whole astheatic with violin and 8 bit stuff and toms. I only have a few things to say: 1. more mids: you could definitely add some kind of guitar or pad or other chord instrument to thicken it up a bit. 2. More cowbell 3. you could distinguish the a/b section more, maybe switch to a cowbell based groove instead of hihat and also have some kind of chord stabs? just create more of a contrast to switch it up more would be awesome. Wow, im listening to it in the background as im writing this, its super catchy. anyways, music rant over)

The only thing that was lacking was the gameplay. The base idea is great, and you could definitely develop this into a way larger prototype. For a first game, this is incredible, especially since you submitted so early. What I would suggest to take this further:

1. Make the enemy attack you each turn, so there are more stakes to making the right moves.

2. I know this is kind of an enormous suggestion, but this game feels like an enemy encounter in a dungeon crawler, so making a dungeon crawler to have this as the combat system would actually make this game amazing. It doesn't have to be super complicated, just a few rooms with different enemies to test it out would make it feel like you had a reason for fighting the enemies as oppose to now that you're being served them on a platter.

3. this is where my feedback moves from game design to brainstorming. oh well. you could randomly have certain blocks have like a bomb in them or some kind of spell, so that if you used that block to connect 3, it would grant some kind of boost.  Just to switch up the main loop a bit.

4. Maybe instead of the blocks giving certain actions, they give mana/energy for the corresponding character so you can have multiple actions to choose from for each character? the possibilities are endless...

5. okay this is kind of random but after sitting here for like 10 min writing this the music is lagging out like hell I dont know how your game works, but maybe check if you have any integers or floats that are just incremented as time goes on, that might be the issue.

Overall, this was a great experience, and I hope you continue making games. Don't give up, this entry shows you have a lot of potential going forward!

(Please take pity on a poor soul who couldn't port his game to wasm and go play my game Grandma's Garden at https://sixten-bergman.itch.io/grandmasgarden)