I don't think I quite figured it out, but I really liked the zoom/audio effect after what I assume is leveling up hope?  The pixel art background is really nice too!  I like the mix of 3-D and pixel.  I feels good to me.

Fun game once I figured out what was going on. I really liked that you added a timer so I played this a few times shooting for a better score. Pretty interesting combat mechanics that allow for some fancy stuff like canceling attacks with direction switching. My best score is 1'41", what do the devs get?