This game is super rad! I absolutely love the style. It kinda reminds me of Devil Daggers a little bit, which I love.
Dashing around the stage feels super great. The sound design is really insanely good. Super well done on that.
It took me a little bit to understand the game but reading the comments here helped with that. I'm not sure I understand the point of high kicks. Is that just to clear the pillars littered around the stage? I feel like I was able to make do with dash and low kick and sometimes snap. Eventually I was able to get up to heat 16. It sounds like the boss is bugged so I assume that's about as far as I can get.
Really awesome stuff though. I'd love to see more of this. Well done!