great progress. design feels extremely smart. In particular I like how you solves players not knowing about wheel mode (by starting in wheel mode)
The wheel grinding sound is really grating
switching colors every couple of deaths feels pretty fun. The player choosing their own color feels out of place to me. As does the choice of key binding (though i will admit it’s easy to discover on your own there)
difficulty pacing feels good. I only got as far as the 3rd checkpoint (counting the start as checkpoint 1) because somehow I started spawning back at checkpoint 2