Thanks for the feedback!
Difficulty is really hard to get right as the only person making a game without play testing, but I probably could have paid more attention when making the levels and pulled back the difficulty a bit.
There are a ton of inherent obstacles with my idea for this game, and I don’t think I properly designed around those issues. If I make something similar or iterate to on it in the future, I’ll probably rework the system quite a bit.
The controls thing is mostly because pico8’s default buttons are z and x (likely because a ton of pc games use those).