Thank you so much for the thoughtful and lovely feedback! We really appreciate the time you spent playing and writing this.
Using the mouse like this sounds great. Giving that device more purpose in general is probably not a bad idea. We just thought it might be too much of a disconnect between mouse/keyboard and game pad. But I guess with the control stick you'd have more freedom too.
Anyways, thank you again so much for the feedback!
Ps: yes I would love to see your playthrough, so feel free to post it here. Will definitely look into that!