My first game ended rather unexpectedly (ship destroyed, I guess), and I hadn't saved - would have been nice to have some flashing screen or something if I was low on ship health. I didn't have much problem with ship health after that, so I'm not quite sure what happened. Maybe there were ships hiding behind the wreck and shooting at me I didn't notice, that seemed to happen later =).
I love the secret door augment - it gives just enough info that I've still gotta be paying attention, but removed the need to smash my head into everything.
I completed the game in about 1.5 hours, with a few reloads. The wrecks mostly seemed very easy, except one wreck where I just got wrecked :D. There I expended all of my energy shooting out from behind a secret door at a drone, and still didn't kill it... I just turned around and went to a different wreck and was fine for the rest of the game.
The ship combat was nice, I'm apparently 100% unable to know which way strafing is going to move me when flying any direction other than straight up :D. Wasn't too hard, but definitely wasn't easy (although I never upgraded my ship stats because that seemed like a waste since it could be compensated with skill).
Nice game! I, however, never saw a chicken. I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask the judge to disqualify this one.