This is an incredibly high quality game, holy gibbles! The artstyle and animations were really stellar, the game felt polished and crunchy, and overall a really fun time! I do think that because you do not shoot manually, there doesn't really feel like there's that much skill (except kinda in the last room) and also all the upgrades needing to be purchased before progressing kinda also felt limiting because you couldn't build gooby to a specific playstyle or anything, but maybe it's also like that in vampire survivors (I haven't actually played it), I'm not sure.
Overall, amazing game, especially as there was a time limit for the flash forward jam, and I will definitely be wishlisting the ballad of bonky!