This is a cool game! The controls are lil confusing for me (lowkey i couldn't even figure out how to grab anything) but it's fun nonetheless. The core gameplay is good, which is super convenient if you wanna develop it more. And the story around it offers a lot of opportunities to slide interesting bits of worldbuilding, cool areas, explore whatever themes you want. And the music is also really nice.
Only criticism i have is maybe include a lil tutorial level, and the deceleration could maybe have some visual cue, like a lil spark or vibration?
Again really good game. There's so much to explore with old educational games, I had a whole class on like critical theory applied to those, it's pretty interesting.