Hi KepFox, thank you so much for the awesome feedback! You understood correctly, we've been studying Unity for roughly a month, game dev as a whole for a little bit longer, but generally this was our first assignment for the subject.
The art was all gathered from different places across the Asset Store and Itch.io sprites, the artists did an amazing job, was very glad to implement their work. I will be surely improving/ implementing the aspects that you suggested, once I gain a bit more experience with Unity.
I personally have a lot more experience working with Unreal Engine, so I had to kinda relearn my way into Unity for this but with time I sure hope to participate in more jams!