Epic and cute! I was going for a kind of corny 80's sci-fi fantasy movie aesthetic, but epic and cute definitely describes it well. Thank you for playing. I'm glad you both enjoyed it.
Pixel art is a lot of fun. It's a really fiddly medium, but it tests and develops your basic composition skills in a very forgiving way. Some of my enemy sprites were kind of rushed, but I justified it to myself by thinking that the vagueness added a little to a kind of horror feel. I'm not really sure I succeeded there.
I appreciate your offer to contribute to an update. I plan to start working on an update after the results of the jam. I want to keep this game purely solo developed, but maybe we can work together on another project in the future. Maybe I can be a contributor to a project of yours or CommodoreSixtyFour's even.