Hello , Art director here , Thank you so so much for the full detailed feedback and honest review , very rare in a jam where they just swap rates and call it a day so thank you for that .
In mind i wanted the dungeon to be very dark and grimy , almost hopeless , and i think we nailed that part , for the 'frame-locked' animations i think it fit like a glove specially with our pixelated look.
For balancing i feel like it was all over the place , we didnt have time to play test and we ran out of time and this is what we have for now hehe,
For the bug it was definetly unintentional LOL , but im glad it happened since it helped balancing out 3 skeletons + 5 rats in that lever which was horrible and unplayable for some.
For the step sounds our composer cooked up alot of them but they didnt make it in the last version
overall im very proud of my team, I think we will fix it after the ratings are done , again thank you so much for the detailed answer , I'll be playing yours later on for sure !