Thank you for the amazing feedback! About the tanky goblins, you can actually one shot them. In the center bottom of the screen there is a bar that looks like a sword, when filled up, you deal maximum amount of damage and can oneshot a goblin with the overhead slash. The less it is filled up, the less damage you deal.
I do realize that this mechanic is not really explained to the player, so that's on me.
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Ah right, before I was kind of just spamming lol and it took like 10+ hits to kill them because of that.
Because of that, I went back and finished the game! The combat became very fun when I realised it's very similar to Dark Souls (although I'm guessing it's mainly kingsfield that inspired it? Either way you made a pretty nerve wracking horror game because I like how when you make noise, you get ambushed by goblins from above.