finally ragequited eventually
It's bad, it's clumsy, it's not very responsive, doesn't feel good. And this advice I'm about to give won't make it fun, but if you want to move through it, dodge more. It's usually responsive and fast, so you smack, roll, smack, roll, fight ends pretty quickly when you don't get knocked down. Just spam bind until it works, then they can't get up again. Get rocket punch or any damage boost really and all the fights will be succinct.
You might want to do that if you want to mess around with the character customization more. Tiny potion lets any race be compact and efficient(no mechanical advantage, but a cyclops as petite and small as the smallest elf is fun).
Didn't take long to have a scaled arachne tiny girl with fangs, demon horns, and siren ears. Or whatever you like.
It's the very first alpha release, so it's not really worth the time to play for most people, more a way to sate curiosity about what the dev is up to, but if you want to delve deeper, hope the tip helps.
On an unrelated note, hope the dev spends more times making outfits. 80% of the outfit options are ugly and there aren't many. It another set of assets that both games would share, so it's kind of efficient work. I know, I know, both games have more serious mechanical things to work on... but I like making pretty characters.