glad you liked it, i think the difficulty scaling is well designed it teaches the mechanics and slowly gets harder every level but every player has their own preference and feel, also the golems yea they are kind of unpredictable at first but then you know how to deal with them, also checkpoints were in my list but i got busy the last couple days of the jam,thanks for your feedback.
one last thing did you manage to beat the game and experience the ending?