Thanks so much for sticking along for this mess XD I finally figured out the problem and it was really stupid but im playtesting it and making sure its all good - Il have a final version up as soon as I can :)
(I feel like such a dork since the game was working perfectly when I put it on GameJolt but I had to compress the game assets a bit so i could put it on Itch.io and my new version of unity messed a bunch of stuff up and ugh)