Yes, it was my first walk cycle animation so the movment is kind of exagerate (and the character is constantly in a running state because otherwise jumps are too low and short).
And thank you! I am very glad that you like it (both the menu and the distortion effect). The distortion is made with a shader applied to a color rect, if you were curious
For the first jumping area, you can stand on the first block for a couple of seconds, it's going to break and will make this section much easier and avoid you getting softlocked. (The submissions had already ended when I played the game because I was still working on stuff for it, I discovered the problem of this section the hard way as well. Those light brown blocks are actually sand blocks that function similarly to the ones in Kirby)