It's definitely partly my personal taste, but this is my favorite art direction out of all the games I've played so far this jam! I was probably doing something wrong, but I couldn't seem to drop items on the runes, I tried dragging multiple different items into any of the runes that lit up, and none worked.
Visually I loved the shader effects going on, more people need to do this! I think adding some screen shake and a fleshy sound effect for when enemies get hit with the sword would have brought the juiciness to the next level.
Anyways great submission, looked and felt great!