Thank you for the comment! The game initially was supposed to be harder, but we found that to be a bit frustrating for a first playthrough, so we eased it out a bunch. We also found balancing the stats between encounters to be a bit more difficult than expected, so we rushed it a bit to meet the deadline haha. We tried to make "defend" more relevant by giving it a chance to stun an enemy that attacked the player, but I suppose that could be more relevant in the "double or nothing" run of the game.