It was when i got to the loop around over the catwalk so you could go to the fuel depot, i could find no way to progress, looked around the room there aint much for somehting to break the barred doors or the electric field door, and trying to go back to get the powerup i found that both the area beneath the catwalk and the transformer room are shut off. I think if i took the time to break everything when i first get the powerup i wouldnt have been stuck cause then i could have been able to successfully backtracked (maybe?)
That's fair! Maybe it's unsettling that they're more realistic when the overall vibe of everything else is more stylized/cartoony.
I did reference some actual orca eyeballs for the design, which also have a bit of an uncanny valley humanlike quality to them. So, in that way I would say this is an intentional effect :)