Thank you so much for playing it, commenting and for such kind words! It means a lot to us, and thank you for the compliments on the art! I was the one who made it and I love that you felt that it had a lot of personality, I tried my best ^^, we also put a lot of effort for the mechanics to be fun and interesting so it's great for it to be noticed.
So, the start being slow is intentional because we wanted the player to feel that our main character is an "out of date robot model" in this universe, and that with the help of the symbiont it starts to move faster and gaining abilities, but I get it that it may not feel like it, specially since I wasn't able to finish the animation that was supposed to go on the start of the game that would transmit that idea.
We are planning on adding it and fixing other details on the game on a post jam update, feel free to check us later if you want too, would be cool to see how your feedback helped us.
Gonna check your game later too! Once again, thanks for playing!