Ahhh always love hearing Volatile Reaction show up in unexpected places. This is really, really solid! I did destroy the portal immediately upon starting the game and was like “damn, these are the starting stats? this is fun!” After dying in the lava zone I tried again without breaking the portal and was bummed to find out that, oh no, those were just the bonuses you get for breaking it that made the early game feel so snappy and surprisingly strong. The economy wasn’t very generous either.
I felt like the hitboxes with the sword and stuff didn’t quite ever work as I expected so I ended up not using it much. Besides that and some polish issues this is really well designed overall and really fun!