The main menu was really well made just have to mention it. I really enjoy games where you can get really broken builds or just statistics in general so this game was definitely very fun to play for me. I was going to say you should be able to level up without a click but I one realised you could save soul shards, and two I found it really fun to just spam the level ups and have one medium amount of "oo what should I spend everything on" (every now and then) rather than lots of small ones.
One small criticism was that the go back to main menu button didn't have an are you sure section as it was placed right next to the next life button, only saying this because I miss clicked on it and I can understand why something like that wouldn't be added due to the jams time limit.
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Thanks for playing our game! we really didn't have enough time to plan the game out but we had fun developing it, and it turned out to be fun to play because you can test out different builds xD, my favorite was a machine gun build that one shots the boss! you can also purposely die but replay the game and keep getting op haha. We'll also take note of the main menu button to prompt the player first next time, thanks again!