I'm glad you got use out of the lower difficulty! I've been trying to focus on adding in stuff like that for jam games. I know people are potentially playing a bunch of games in a row, so I want to try and make sure as many people as possible can see the majority of the game's content without too much resistance.
Oh man, you really overestimate me lol. The high-scores are saved in a config file locally, the default scores you see when you start the game are ones that I hard-coded in. I'm not 100% where Godot/Itch end up placing that stuff, if I had to guess it's somewhere in your browser's cache- but it's the same way I'm keeping track of the volume settings. It definitely would be cool if Itch let you store stuff on their server somewhere, but I totally understand why they wouldn't want to implement that lol (Although then again, they're already allocating space to host the games themselves aren't they?).
That's a good point, the boss should probably actually react in some way when you banish them, especially since I'm asking the player to touch something that, up until that point, would have killed them lol. I think I even started drawing an animation for it towards the beginning of the jam...
Thanks again for playing, I really appreciate the feedback and ideas!