Super cool and fun entry. Review first, then story. Love all the art, music and sound effects, kudos to the team for doing all that for the jam, love it! The game was really fun and very challenging (until I found the cheat, more on that in a sec). I couldn't get very far initially but I like that you included a way to lower the level time and up the lives, that sort of control is really underrated in jam games and its a great way to allow everyone to finish. The game ran smooth, the CPU behavior was great and very brutal. Super polished entry all around, great job by the team!
One suggestion: have separate sliders for the music and the sound effects. I could barely hear the music, and anytime there were sound effects the music was lost in the background. Which leads me to....
Story time: The first two times I played I didn't hear the music, but I saw you made music for the jam so I turned the sound volume way up and started a third game. I knew the punch sounds would be loud so in order to hear the music better I decided to just jump around and avoid the goons so just the music was playing. Five minutes later I had completed the level with a completely pacifist playthrough.
The CPU are too smart for their own good, they think they're Obi-wan on the high ground so they just wait for you to come up to them. You can chill below them and wait til you need to jump up, then jump past them, up past the top of the screen. They follow, you jump down, and half the time they die up there like idiots. And thus the pacifist playthrough (no deaths either!) was born. What a wild ride.
Great job gang! Highly enjoyable!