Glad you enjoyed the game! Thanks for the feedback :)
The floating stuff does come into play at the end, and likely with more dev-time I might've been able to figure a way to include it earlier. And hey, having her shrink a bit when damaged does sound cool- I'll hafta consider that for a sequel or Expanded edition.
I'm glad the game was simply fun the whole time! And while there's no exact time restriction on ducking the whole time, neither will the player be able to collect balloons or see Bambi swell up- so that's how I decided to balance that out. I can't think of a game that has a timer on ducking, and it'd be a bit rude to uncrouch the player against their will haha.
Aw, I'm sorry to hear the sounds got annoying! Personally, I loved em to death, and I did my best with having each action play any of a variety of noises. Overlaps and cuts though, totally on me- I just don't know enough about how Construct handles sounds to figure a way around that. I did try!! Many of my solutions wound up hurting the game mechanics, so I stopped trying and let it be.
Thanks!! I'm really proud of the polish and Balloon Babe's whole personality and vibe.