Thank you so much! I agree the voice actors did a phenomenal job :). So glad to hear you enjoyed it.
I am curious what other control mappings would work well or better than the current one, probably will experiment with that later. You are correct about the map, it should show your current square with the blue arrow, and the focus should start there, but there is a bug when the dungeon resets, the map isn't properly resetting.
Reducing controls is a good question that I've been thinking about throughout the day. I do agree that simpler is better. The backtracking was a much requested feature in the playtesting, and getting rid of the inventory will be rather hard because various interactions depend on you actively using the right item at the right side. But there might be a better way to reorganize the buttons and remove them without removing the actual action.
Thanks for taking the time testing our game and giving your feedback!