OK, finished it. I concur with the opinions below: this is a set of absolutely deliciously evilly meta puzzles, beautifully reminiscent of THERE IS NO GAME.
thank you very much!! your feedback is very much appreciate, and i respect that you took so much time trying to solve that one puzzle haha. again, sorry for the mixup with my comment, i genuinely forgot you had to have sound on for that one part lol.
i tried to have everything be as intuitive as possible but like i've said before sometimes i definitely got tunnel vision, and certain parts weren't as easy to understand as i thought. and like you said, even if the walkthrough is available, just following it isn't super fun. i'll keep it in mind if i update this game, or make future puzzle games.
still, i'm really glad you enjoyed what i made, and thought the meta puzzles were clever! :D thank you for playing!! <3
Maybe it's just me, but I still don't see what sound had to be on for, unless you are somehow testing to see if the user has the tab muted. (I'm using the in-browser version, which I assume is obvious in view of my speaking of muted tabs.) I could have had the volume turned all the way down during that time and I can't figure any way it would have made any difference.
I can understand that flavour of tunnel vision. I have it myself for my own software: what seems obvious to me often isn't to others.
Thanks again for a very enjoyable game!