i'm glad you like the soundtrack! i made it for the jam, and man, i did not feel good finishing it lol. specifically, i needed to finish the main game track something like the last wednesday of the jam and i was like, literally nauseous working on it lmao. idk, composition is not my strong suit. i think the lesson is definitely to work on the music earlier because the earlier work i had done on it was not nearly so hard for me.
i'm still not sure exactly what i want to do with the difficulty. i think i'm set on making the difficulty curve a bit easier, and i'll probably implement some assist-mode style options (i have a time slowdown mostly working locally). i'm not sure if the skip button will get to stay. it feels a bit out of place to me. perhaps if i find a way to make it more diagetic. honestly, maybe just a "come back to this later" button, kind of like you're suggesting, would make more sense diagetically. i could see that being the route i go.
thanks for playing!