You can also use gold to upgrade specific weapons, armors, and shields that appear in the cave, making future runs with those items significantly stronger. Progression
Unlike most platformers where you’re a hero collecting coins, Alissa makes you a scavenger collecting seconds. The “Have-nots Cavern” is a sprawling, bioluminescent wound in the earth—beautiful in a dying-star way, but lethal. Each screen is a puzzle of absence: What don’t you have to cross this gap? A rope. A second pair of hands. Hope. Alissa and the Have-nots Cavern -v1.1- -Toritora-