Thank you! I never think sounds are 'SO' important - I'm one of those people who listens to spotify instead of the game OST unless I'm playing something super immersive - but with all the feedback and honestly, with playing all the other games on the jam with nice music and sound fx I'll pay attention to deliver a more complete experience moving forward! It's very nice feedback from everyone.
I agree the game is pretty relaxed now but I wanted it like that for the jam, my original idea was that you have to die on the first few stages till you get to level 5 (extra penetration) and then die on the next ones till you get to level 10 (another 1 penetration) to have a shot at the boss. But that was making the game a bit more repetitive then I wanted plus bit too long for a jam game so I overhauled the difficulty. Might have went a bit too easy with it :)