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The health not resetting was a design choice, we thought since it's a pretty short game and you could gain back health by collecting fish, it'd be a bit more challenging this way. But since fish also don't respawn I can see how it can become a little frustrating. I hope the checkpoints were frequent enough as to not totally sour your experience! Glad you still beat it, penguin says hi right back at you! :D