Thank you for playing! Truly grand compliments for the visuals and I am happy to inform that a second version V2 is in the works RIGHT NOW and will likely be updated before the jam voting ends to patch enemy speed and difficulty! The Undyne fight was an inspiration and as for the shield I think it's best kept the way it is after this new patch haha.
The cosmic felon does escape! However, the whole sequence would be too much for even the next patch so I'd wait for that one unluckily, but as an arcade game its fairly ok as is.
The game itself could expand to something bigger so who knows maybe it's a likelihood.