Thank you so much for taking a look and the feedback! I'm hoping to spend more time on this to make a game-game, because I have a lot of ideas and a Game Design document that over-scoped for this month-long jam with my complete utter lack of experience lmaoo
I was able to look at the animation thing you mentioned and noticed it's an issue in my state machine animation set-up. xD
Looking into the item pickups currently, and thing I just need to rework my item system to fix the issues I was having in this prototype and other mechanics that didn't make it into this submitted prototype because of crashes.
Thank you for bringing these both to my attention! ^u^ <3