I'd say that you don't necessarily need to make the game easier but to make sure the difficulty doesn't feel out of place. For instance as the player you appear to be decked out in awesome armor and the bad guys seem to have weaker armor so in your head you feel like you should have a solid advantage especially in a game. Obviously game jam doesn't give time for art but if you appeared to be in just civilian clothing and the bad guys are in armor then it feels like you really got to earn your victory and in your head the difficulty makes sense due to your situation.