Awesome
I created an account just to give my feedback for what a challenging fun game this is. To be fair, it IS a tad bit hard. This is coming from a person who beat battletoads. I don't think it's necessary to have easy/normal/hard modes. What's the point of playing a trivial game without any difficulty?
The whole point in games is to be challenged and exercise skill, dexterity and reflexes. The author creatively made a wonderful game like this available. I find many games to be too easy, and unsatisfying because players just go through the motions. This is what's missing in games nowadays.
I liked how the character enters different rooms for each quest. It would be nice to have some variety in what he can do with the gems, and some boss fights would be nice. It may also be nice to have a weapon. One-shot game play is fine (eg., can't get hit - I think it's absurd to have health points)
Keep the good work up!