Thanks for the feedback! I definitely agree that area 1 is still too long. Believe it or not, it was originally twice the length lol. We made it pretty large so we had room for a couple variations we wanted to add, but didn't have time for. In hindsight, we definitely could have made it even shorter, or cut it out entirely.
As for the logs... Yeah keeping them in as-is is probably my biggest regret of the project. They were one of the last things implemented really late on Saturday night, and we discovered that they don't carry either the player or goat character bodies for some reason. I didn't have enough time to figure out how to fix it. Probably should have just been cut out entirely.
Glad you enjoyed the rest of the game though! Looking forward to using all of everyone's feedback for next jam.