Thanks for playing and for the feedback! Just a quick clarification, if you could tell me more about the pausing you're experiencing? Was the game freezing up, or did you mean when the game pauses to play out an animation, or possibly when the tutorial pop-ups appear?
It was a combination of the tutorial pop-ups at the start, and then the game pausing to play out an animation. Both together just felt like a lot of stopping and starting. But the tutorial windows stopped popping up pretty quickly and I got used to the game pausing for the animations. It makes sense why it's needed so I rescind that bit of feedback haha
I do think some of the animations are a little too long (especially some of the death animations), so I need to go through and make them all a set length I think to make the turns flow better. I also probably don't have to wait for things like damage animations to move on to the next tile, and can just wait for them before moving to the next phase. I just didn't want to get into too much async stuff in a jam game since async is such a bug factory.a