Thank you for the kind words Jay. I was honestly a little taken aback by your praise, it's certainly not what I expected for my little demo build here, but thank you for that.
A lot of what you mentioned is already planned but I've some time before I get towards that. Currently I'm just working on a bunch of new enemies to populate the first area of the castle, along with some mechanics that'll hopefully keep gameplay fun and interesting.
I provide almost daily updates in my discord server as to the progress of the game, so if you're not in there you might want to consider that. It should be linked somewhere on my profile, I'm not really accustomed to how itch.io works.
Once again thank you for the praise and stay safe.