Played for about an hour so far after finally figuring out how to gather essence (Thanks Sombreve!) but now the slimes are bugging the crap out of me. I've had multiples of them creep up behind me and suck out the time without me even noticing. Like, I physically cannot react to the slime fast enough, much less see it coming. Could you PLEASE give the slimes some sort of sound effect or maybe like a homing map where you can see their location? I gathered enough time shards for like a 5m run and it was gone in a matter of seconds because a group of 3 slimes ganged up on me.
Additionally, gathering cores or being attacked by a slime cancels out the run on the shift key and it must be re-pressed to re-enable running.
Lastly, (for now) the reticle doesn't exactly line up with where you expect it to and the range on the laser is deceptively short. I have to get VERY close to the slimes to actually make them pop and by the time I get close enough to actually attack them they come flying at me and then I'm stuck/dead within seconds. Like, I know I'm not an FPS player so this is hard for me anyways, but I almost rage quit because I legitimately could not even gather the cores from the slimes at first. And yes, I'm on easy mode for what that's worth.
I am VERY excited to see where this game goes from here but I'm going to wait to come back to it until several more updates have occurred or I'll end up bald from pulling all my hair out in frustration.