Haha, this was a fun spin on the theme, deliberately looping ("lapping") backwards to stay in the lazy river forever. Mechanically, I found myself just right clicking and dashing instead of using the normal swim function. I don't think that's a drawback per se, just that the game got even more amusing when I was darting all over the place!
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Glad you enjoyed it! I agree, as you get used to the game, the dash and dive overshadow the basic swimming movement. In movement/combo based games like this I feel like it's helpful to have simpler movement options for beginners that require less skill/precision to execute and aid in simply moving around. The tradeoff for ease-of-use is that they have to provide less scoring utility or else they would make the trickier tricks not worth it. Though in this case, maybe the basic swim could stand to offer a bit more...