We were pulling inspirations from a bunch of different GB games, like Mysterium, Sword of Hope, Final Fantasy Legend, Dragon Warrior Monsters (technically GB-compatible GBC, but I digress).
I'm hoping we get a chance to continue fleshing this out. I feel our idea was good, but we dropped the ball on implementation. Literally getting the items to draw at your feet while facing a wall was a last-second polish feature lol.