POP! Goes the Forest Spirit

So here is our "hit/hurt" sequence:

It's drastic but it makes it clear that you've been hit, which is important if the game has intense pacing. The re-spawn is rapid though, allowing players to return to the action quickly. The simplified version would be for the one-off event where the player is struck for the last time with no energy left in the boss fight:

I also did a basic animation for the start game text for the main menu to test what it would look like:

I will need to see it against the actual menu to gauge whether or not it is fluctuating in opacity too rapidly.