Yeah the item stats are confusing and unfortunately not at all exact due to the complexity of the battle system. We should actually maybe give less info and just say brass > cardboard and such.
And I, well I finally understand: I don’t tap play at all, I hold down as preferred mode and the controls aren’t at all made for tappers first lol.
The early fights should probably have been much easier too. Good thing I actually doubled the starting health during the last day of the jam. pew.
and yeah i agree with pretty much all of your critique. we had some thought on how to adress some of it during the jam, but we very much ran out of time.