I Like how you made another twist on the metroidvania genre, with different secrets, handy power-ups and the scary monster you need to escape from, and again love the memory aspect of remembering the routes after dying.
But like water_zz said, it would be nice to escape from the enemy, and i need to find out how to get the french time lmao
maybe you could take inspiration from pack-man and have items that temporarily keep the cat away?