Going to stop for a bit now. I like what I've played but there are irritations.
- The rain keeps killing me. I'm either out in the open and get battered or underground and I drown in the flood. When it starts hinting at rain I'm too far from the previous safe room and have no idea where to go for another one. So essentially when it rains I die. I need to perhaps get a handle on how often it rains and time my exploration accordingly.
- Controls are a bit fussy, having to hold up to grab pipes and poles etc has let to a lot of missed catches
- It's very cryptic. I have no idea what the symbols are, I don't know what rank I am, I only know of the existence of ranks thanks to this thread. I found myself in a room and a symbol came up in the corner flashing red, presumably telling me something but there didn't appear to be any way to progress further in that room, so no idea what it meant. I ate a yellow flower and there was lots of stuff happening in the bottom left but no clue what it all meant.
There are loads of positives though, I love the aesthetic, the animation are superb, the weight and heft of the animals as they thump about. There has been some very cool AI moments. I like the lack of hand holding, even if some of the stuff is getting lost on casuals like me.
Will play more soon.
For me the problem with the stealth portion of the game is that too much is random. Enemy placement is pure RNG. Which enemies appear on each screen seems entirely randomized. There's no way to read the room and prepare yourself. Enemies can and will show up out of nowhere. Dying without any fault of your own seems to be purposefully done by design. 
