it's not bad, but I prefer more story oriented games. It was pretty cool though, love the artstyle and the music. Slightly annoyed about dying in 1 hit but that's what makes the leaderboard more special, I suppose.
You're right. I was just expecting some undead king that brainwashed his people into believing something else for their safety or something and they eventually die and wanted to stay in their place or something and seeing the reaper doing things like that made them guard up and attack by default or something. But! I can still appreciate this game quite a lot, and even if it was somewhat difficult, it was fun for certain.