The art style, music and the animation of the tree legs was amusing. Great narration at the beginning that explained the game's whole idea but I realized that the game play itself was the story which was quite interesting. The game could have been longer and fun if the cycle continued after the tree takes root and a new tree grows from the seed that falls from the 1st tree's fruit and the cycle continues until the players finds a way to break the cycle by solving the loop puzzle. That's my suggestion. The composition was already nice and you can definitely continue developing this. Overall, the game was too cute to play to be this short.
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Thank you for your comment !
In fact, 5 hours before the deadline the gameplay what as you described : you respawn at the position where you die ! But as it could totally "break" a part of the gameplay, for example if you die close to the rot apple, you respawn right next to the apple you can pick up, which removes part of the fun ! So I changed it to be the version you played, which I feel is better.
And yes, I plan to continue working on it and adding more things to do to break the loop !