haha, it's funny, bc one of my jam partners said about the same, but i've never played things like devil daggers or hyper demon but that's what it gets compared to! my audio team was goated, BVSSIC has a lot of audio engineering expertise and HC1 provided some good starting samples that he processed. so for instance, we took advantage of sidechaining in the godot audio bus to make the audio duck underneath high-impact sounds like the snap attack or the dash.
the high kick was my way of clearing a path through the pillars yea! but we're gonna be revisiting the moveset. thank you for giving it a shot!