I made it to the end! I love the handrawn style and the variety or enemies. Once I figured out the darkness puzzle, it was satisfying to complete it. The randomness made it replayable as well.
I didn't find a way to recover my health, so it seemed that avoiding combat was the best strategy as it served little else than to get you closer to restarting. I think I simply got lucky on my second run, finding a few items to make myself stronger and nearly died in the end but avoided a fight.
Overall a fun entry! Kudos. Gameplay here
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Thank you for sticking to the end, wow that was a close call!
The improved version addresses a little bit about strategy: in short, you should dance around a bit to avoid being hit, instead of just bashing the enemies and receiving hits (but it's hard to communicate that!)
There's also a single way to recover health, but you shouldn't really rely on it (rather try to avoid damage on each run and hope a little bit of luck is in your side :))