Thank you so much for playing and for the feedback! We wanted to capture the spirit of the games that inspired us (Dark Souls, Kingdom Hearts, Devil May Cry) which definitely resulted in a more difficult game ;^; . We've been talking about how we can tweak it to be more approachable to everyone if we continue in the future! We also agree that we should improve the visual language of the bars, health and our ramp-up mechanic can be unclear sometimes to someone just starting the game :0