Super cute game! The graphics and music were really charming, and everything was fairly intuitive. The visuals/story certainly communicated the jam's theme, but gameplay wise it just felt like controlling the human instead of any kind of reversal of typical gameplay.
If you polish this post-jam, I'd suggest making just adding 1 extra "move right" instead of a separate start button. Personally, I would have also liked if the level auto-restart if the person continues moving in the same direction for too long (with a clear timer), but I can see that being more inconvenient and unintuitive than the simple restart button you went with.