I personally like my controls but I get how people might feel about it. Edit: I'm thinking we'll just have 2 control schemes 🤷🏽♂️. They'll feel different but behave the same way.
We're still thinking the design through and tuning the timing.
The slow down is due to a mistake in that the wind's trigger area is too big. What you're experiencing is running into said trigger area, likely from the next spawned room! Sorry about that. >_<
The Red timer is you approaching death. The timer has 3 or 4 loops? I forget. We might add the ol' "hearts = life" visual to it. Each subsequent loop of the timer gets faster. The intent was to induce a kind of panic.
Thank you for your feedback, and thank you so much for playing our game!