Thank you for playing and the thought-out review, I appreciate the feedback! I originally was only going to make the Hanging Gardens, but I thought about the Tower of Babel and I never pass up an opportunity to make a word puzzle game!
The crickets in Hanging Gardens were originally more predictable but you're right that the double jump was a bug that appeared when I tried to make them more exciting. I left it in, but I probably should've revamped them to make them more predictable and fair to reduce artificial difficulty.
For Tower of Babel, you can quickly quit a level by pressing escape (or the "Start button" equivalent), but I realize I didn't state that anywhere in game so that's on me.
As for the joystick bug, I wish I had controllers to test it with to catch this sort of thing. Thanks again for playing!