I agree the UI is pretty terrible, but the UI is the hardest part for me. My last game had basically none, so it is a little bit of an adjustment. That's what these jams are for anyways. The slippery-ness of the controls are terrible too, I agree, but the alternative was to just turn down the max speed (which I was doing gradually anyway) which would make the game much slower than it already is. I think I chose the lesser of the bad design decisions. Also I played your game and it was cool. It handled game balance better than mine (in terms of the guns, anyway. The enemies kind of start spawning at a ludicrous rate). I think post-jam I could make a version of it that has you pick one route to go down, limited to a specific build that can only get better in one way. Almost like the bioshock upgrades, but more linear. Glad you liked it!

Yeah the enemies are really not that complex. Maybe after the jam I will give them a real AI to make them more of a threat, rather than lowering the player's speed.

I think that if I work on this game anymore, than I would have to make shooting through walls either A. the central mechanic or B. some kind of upgrade, because it is kind of too fun for me to just cut out. yeah, I know that if you upgrade your gun enough than you can cut through enemies like butter, and that the weight added every level mechanic is not very fun. Those two things in combination just make the game boring from a player perspective. I will fix this later. Your game was good, and I found the art style to be very charming. The story is cute, and the design of the main character is good. 9/10. (the puzzles were hard for weird reasons such as: 1 block tall character can't fit through 1 block gap, can't really tell which book i'm about to pick up. just those two things.)

That's because there is a useless gun upgrade called bullet speed. I don't know why I made that an upgrade. All of the upgrades are random outside of shops. The levels are random, and in retrospect I should have thought through how I spawn the enemies. I wanted the game to get harder as it progressed, so the weight of things makes you slower after every level regardless to make the enemies more of a threat. The enemy spawn rate is also ticked up for every level you complete.