An update here because I was able to finish the game! I still thought it was a bit frustrating to repeat the whole process when just one thing was missing, but since it's a short game and the ending was very cute/rewarding, it didn't bother me as much as it did on my first playthrough. Congrats on the great work once again :)
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Thank you so much for taking the time to play our game! I'm so glad you enjoyed it :D 2.5D games are super fun and I hadn't even considered it until looking into some others out there
I appreciate what you say about the time loop and optimising the action budget. We'll be looking into all of the game's aspects when we finetune it for the post-jam release so we'll be testing the mechanics more as well. Thank you once again for the feedback!