This is one of those types of games that is hard to balance due to the scope of options that can change difficulty.
I never found myself dying because of the enemies damage. It was always me getting push off the edge. I found that the stars allowed me to level up quickly so that was the first thing I was doing every run. I then managed to get enough beans and gold beans to just get a couple of upgrades. However even with one upgrade into projectile count and 1 into damage. I was not doing enough to counter the number of beans spawning. I was not able to efficiently take out as many as were coming in. Other than that there is a fun game here. May not need as many upgrade options a lot of them are pretty useless at first or are not as good as damage and projectile count.
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Thank you for playing and the feedback! A few of the upgrades are pretty useless I do agree, but a few others are also helpful such as reload time/attack speed. Getting flung is pretty annoying yet also pretty fun in my opinion lol. Also, I'm still updating this game so if you want to, you can try out the post jam version on my page (its a tiny bit more balanced).