I do love the concept and the feel of it, you should score highly in creativity, narrative and artwork. I wasn't a fan of restarting from the beginning though, the throwing knives were too hard to bypass and when I finally did those rockets were even worse, so after dying to rockets twice I had to give up as it turned into a time sink. In essence, the only connection to the loop theme is really just the mechanics of restarting from the beginning after death, which is common in games and not very loved mechanics, but the rewind visual were nice. This is pretty good as a weird concept, with a mixture of spooky story and cute graphics creating unsettling experience.