Thank you so much. Banjo-Kazooie is a huge influence! Glad you spotted it. I got the impression it was a bit of an influence for your game as well (which was amazing!).
Yeah the tape really blended in too much with the ground. I was going for gold to kind of mimic gold coins, but I am sure I could have found some ways to make them pop more. Maybe I should have ditched directional shadow for a shadow directly under them. Color could have been tweaked too.
I totally agree on the platform feedback. I kind of locked myself into an implementation that didn't give me enough freedom to manipulate the speed. Adding a pause at the destinations would have really helped, and I wish I had thought of that!
Thanks for the great feedback! :)