Oh, thats some really nice word, thank you very much :)
And you are absolutely right, the map is just bad. I just did not have enough time. I was so hung up about having to integrate the verticality, that it overshadowed anything else. And yes, it does not really make the game better. I envisioned something like Dark Souls, where you open up short cuts and so on. Next year I will definitly have a mini map.