Thanks lol, i'm kinda blown away by how much positive feedback i'm getting from this!
If you like the gameplay, consider finding a way to play wario land 3, it's a pretty underrated game, and this is quite strongly based on that(though it is quite clunky by modern standards)
So the rainbow gem was something i added quite late in development, i thought it could be funny to make you go backwards through the entire game for 100% completion, but i was having a bit of a hard time coming up with what to reward you with. I think it's funny when a game lets you get more than a 100% completion rate, so i ended up going with a 13th gem, but i get i could probably have chosen something better lol
I think figuring out all the interactions is part of the puzzle of the game
And i had this idea that there could be exactly one vine in the game that hits you the moment you go close to it and it would be like a funny jumpscare, but i got a bit carried away and added a bunch more and i realize that kinda undermines the comedy of it. whoops lol