Thanks for a detailed review!
I’m really glad you noticed and enjoyed the details, including but not limited to crowd’s favorite coconut bonk 🥥 :D If you enjoyed throwing fruits, try collecting a secret shroom and then throw fruits real fast including secret new projectiles. I assure you it’s worth the effort ;)
I fully agree the wall-jump is way too non-standard, people are expecting it to work differently. You can actually mash jump between vertical walls to quickly ascend, you just must not input left/right away from the wall. The angle is chosen automatically when sliding wall.
The rationale behind this was to eliminate the annoying left/right alternation when wall-jumping up, and it works fairly well when you get used to it, but I think people don’t really play the game long enough for that, and honestly it’s not a good design for things to work differently than people expect.
4:43 is a decent time, well played 👌🏽