The enemy in Marrowlight is not a boss. It is not an army. It is a number. Vaurach, the Unnumbered, does not send soldiers at you. It sends multitude — a body count that stops being countable and starts being weather. So the first design decision, made before anything else, was a target we refused to negotiate down: hundreds of enemies on screen at once. Not dozens. Hundreds. If the screen ever looks manageable, we've failed. Everything else in the game is downstream of that