Thanks so much! Absolutely delighted by this feedback, really appreciate the kind words. Great point regarding the character speed, suspect it would have helped with the difficulty which has been mentioned a few times too.
Quick edit as I've found the palette I used - it's called antiquity16, was made by 𝕀𝕃𝕋𝔸, and can be found on Lospec here https://lospec.com/palette-list/antiquity16