You are absolutely correct about the mashing but the game is designed to have upgrades bought from the shop that empowers you in different ways for you to deal with the enemies easier but in exchange there would be punishment for mashing every button and killing everything on sight :D but we had to scratch the upgrade part since we kinda underestimated the work we needed to do and we couldn't work much on the last day of the jam. So only 0.25 second cooldown was implemented to stop mashing at least a little bit. THX for playing and giving feedback :DD.