Thank you! Yeah, falling down was the intended start of the game. I wanted something cinematic and give you a reason to go back up, and also to visualize how long the game would be.
Yeah, the gamebreaking bugs are quite annoying and they snuck in during the last few hours of the jam. I'll get them fixed post-jam. It's mostly related to some on-hit effects, I think. Some enemies cause them to you, like the beholder and I think the snake lady as well. And I've also seen one instance where equipping some regular gloves freezes the character, and I have no idea why that happens :')
So I'm very sorry about the freeze bug! But I hope you still had a good time playing it :D