I will always respect the seriousness of a story about a person and their (highly judgmental) dog.
I really liked that you controlled both the dungeon and the sword with the same button! I did struggle with the combat room, though. If an enemy got to me, it'd just stay on top of me and suck all my health, and the room was so long it felt intimidating to start all over again. I also definitely thought you had to swing the sword to do damage - I didn't realize you could just point it at the enemy.
My computer also kept thinking I wanted to activate sticky keys - maybe a button other than shift would have helped there!