What a fun idea! I've never played something like this before, I absolutely loved arranging the backpack to get the most out of each attack, I ended up with a couple steel plates to get a steady defense, 1 sheild, and then a told of clocks and swords arranged so that each sword was ready every turn. I had 3 clocks surrounding one area as well that I used as like a "super incubator" area to quickly hatch eggs! Huge amount of fun, I really enjoyed playing through this one!
I also am a big fan of the "choose your own adventure" style of dungeon map, very cool.
I must say that the background being the same clock for everything got a tad old after a while, but honestly I having so much fun tinkering around with the mechanics and reading every item that I hardly noticed.
Fantastic stuff!