Glad you enjoyed it for the most part, appreciate the comment! As for the Tapeworm bug I have been aware of that as a friend of mine ran into the same problem. Nobody else becides yourself reported it so I assumed it was a rare bug, I've even tried to replecate it myself to no avail. I'll get to work on figuring it out and fixing it ASAP!
As for the powerups, there is infact a powerup that shrinks you down so you can reach those ones that are in hard to reach places. There is some level of RNG with the powerup system so you may get unlucky with the ones you get. I did however make sure the game would still be beatable even if you don't get a single one.
The lack of signaling of what each powerup does is another bit of feedback I commonly got and I understand. Each one does have an effect. the pink pincers make you move faster for example, but I can see how one may not notice as it's rather subtle.
Again, thanks for the feedback. Especially that Tapeworm softlock, now I know it wasn't an isolated insident. I'll be patching that as soon as I can.