Hi thanks for playing, glad you liked it! In regards to the jump, we were trying to remain as true as possible to the earlier tempest games which also have the jump as a collectable powerup, but believe it or not it's even worse in those games because the powerups are randomized. I set it up so that you only have to kill 5 enemies for the powerup to spawn and you ALWAYS get the jump first because, as you pointed out, it's a crucial defensive maneuver. So I tried to un-fuck it as much as possible while staying true to the source haha
Also Farfalle XD