If you go into it more after the jam finishes, I'd suggest adding a customization tree, with certain abilities you get once you get a mutation. so basically if you mutate, you lose health, but gain an ability of your choice. the abilities could be anything like, your dash makes you impervious to damage, or anything else. Just a cool idea I had lol. Anyway, I think the movement is a bit irksome, but that in itself can be a good thing if its deliberate (ex: getting over it with bennett foddy). Maybe a bit more of a tutorial might have been good, but other than that I like it!