An unexpected game! I missed your round 1 entry so this felt quite fleshed out which was cool to see. Reminds me of a 2D version of "We Who Are About To Die"! Well done and curious to see where you take this :)
Oh yeah that mount and blade style directional melee combat is a system I tried to emulate top-down in my first game, "Raid in Abyss." I've had a multiplayer update for that on the backburner for a while now...