Yeah, that's one issue that I observed with the game. If you aren't level 2 by reaching General Eyeball, you're kinda stuck there. I was trying to make it manually save before you leave an area so when you reload it sets you somewhere more useful, but RPGMaker's autosave system is terrible so it won't let you backtrack as it saves between room transitions. I may do a post-jam patch fixing this, we'll see.