First time trying the game.
The hat is a fun idea. Makes the game less punishing since you can take 2 hits and the hat can be picked up again after dropping it.
The portrait does the "you have huge guts" meme pose. Classy.
The game feels quite polished already. I like how the circle around the crosshair represents how many bullets you've got left.
The sound design is good but I think that sometimes the bat will do a metallic sound when breaking something that's apparently not made out of metal and I'm not sure why.
Parrying projectiles with the bat is pretty cool but melee combat feels very chaotic.
On that note, the later levels get very messy. I take it that's the point but I fear what will happen later on.
Keep up the good work.