Thank you for playing! I appretiate you taking time and writing such detailed review, this is very valuable to me, thank you!
All your points are valid. Though I was surprised to hear that the bird sounds were that scary lmao 😂
Monsters are sleeping, they hear you and react to sounds, so running does have a cost, for some reason I assumed that to be obvious, but from what I see in the comments, almost nobody understood that... I guess I was struck by the curse of knowledge assumption..?)
But you still managed to beat it on the first try, congrats 😎