Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed review — this is genuinely one of the most useful pieces of feedback I've gotten, and I really appreciate it.
I'm glad the menu integration and the circuit board art landed well, that was exactly the vibe I was going for.
On the problems: you're spot on about the missing on-screen instructions and the player being hard to spot against the board — both real issues, and I can see exactly how that adds up to feeling unplayable at first.
As for the restart, that's interesting — I tested it directly on itch.io and didn't run into that issue myself, but the music does occasionally fail to play, so there may be some related timing/loading bug I need to dig into. I'll look into the restart flow specifically to see if there's an edge case I missed.
To keep things fair to other participants, I won't be making changes while the jam is still running, but I'll go through and fix all of these once voting ends — a proper tutorial, a more visible player, and a closer look at the restart/audio behavior are all going in. Thanks again for the thorough breakdown, it's exactly the kind of feedback that makes a project better.