I enjoyed this one a good deal! I was surprised by the amount of combat, I think a lot of people have shied away from it in the jam, but I thought this was pretty good. I found some challenge to it, but not enough that I got lost or frustrated. I did wind up saving a *lot* in the first cave after a wipeout, and it was a little funny to me that the final boss was overall much easier than the dreaded fight with four crawlers.
As for the story, I enjoyed this too. I saw one twist coming, but then there were a few more twists and turns that I didn't! Towards the very end I wondered if it'd have a ghost story ending where all the NPCs turned out to be skeletons and ghosts, I'd have found that quite fun, but as it was the ending was very sweet.