Hi, thank you for playing the game and for the feedback. I think changing the color of the filled bar made a lot of sense. About the cat, the path was initially open, but since a few later task required the fishing task to be finish for the story to play out correctly, and I thought the player might skip the fishing area, I decided to just placed something cute there. It was kinda a lazy solution but I ran out of time so I had to get some there. If you are still interested, you can watch the cutscene after setting the lantern go here: