This was beautiful, and all the little touches you added helped make it super impactful. The whole experience felt complete. The music changing as you add little sphere friends, the disappearing particle effect on your character, even how your character is reminiscent of an atom with spinning electrons and the talk of energy in the text. The music and the color scheme both really work with this game overall as well. Oh, and the core mechanic! It was so seamless and intuitive. You start off as a circle next to a thing that has a circle shape, so what do you do? Obvious :D
I really appreciated the narrative, especially how asking for help doesn't mean you're not strong. This was a concept I was wrestling with a bit for our game as well. Like, am I saying these disconnected monster parts aren't strong by themselves? The way you used this narrative was the perfect length with what you were trying to accomplish.
The only thing that took me out of the experience a bit was the fact you essentially speed up when travelling on a diagonal -- super simple movement code fix, though :)
Thank you for making this and sharing <3