I adore the art style! I’d love to take part in a “Only hand drawn assets” jam – I wonder if that’s a thing?
I found the combat a nothing-y, maybe I missed something, but I just hit forward until I won and never felt any danger? Maybe an egg I got was OP?
My experience was also that it was very easy to get lost, I wish there was just one more tile of “render distance”, or more variety in the areas, because I took my a lot longer than I care to admit to realise the start looped.