Thanks :) I thought it would be a good way to make the levels way less linear, and encourage the player to explore a bit, though i agree that it can be a bit easy to get lost, i have more deco assets planned, i just wanted to update with gameplay features first to see how people would feel about them, if they were good ideas or not ^^
Shortcuts and other ways to ease backtracking definitively sounds like a good idea, i'll see how i can make better maps thinking this way, probably modifying the 4 existing ones at first to see what can be possible then building actual levels that fit the new systems better.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by the update and your feedback dude, cheers :)