The easy solution would have been to make immediately clear, via the first part of the second section, that there are now other meaningful ways of having an effect on things. Instead, we have the opposite, where it’s a 30-or-so-second wait each time to get to the portion of the second section where you *might* stumble upon something you can do that causes an effect. I think my point is that there’s not enough there to incentivize that behavior (and that the wait between failed experimental attempts is far too long). At minimum, the order of the three movements at the beginning of the second section should have been reversed.

But I do like the idea. And its tone. Maybe I’m overreacting and the (apparently) intended behavior just needs to be thought of as a secret and not as core gameplay?