Game just launches into the void. music plays, and sfx are playing as well but its on a soild black screen. anyone else having this issue?

This isn't an insult; Amazon to Walmart use their art style but a bit more simplistic than this if I'm honest. By all means why this art style, and who's teaching this style of art aesthetics, and why? I am wondering, and by all means if you like this art style I wanna know why, and how come this is only a recent thing happening....

...from the unfinished ride in the Funfair level. It always seems that once you get caught, you can only go 'round and 'round, sometimes switching between mechanisms. But short of selecting "Visit Home" from the pause menu, is there a legitimate way to escape the circular madness?...

...so yeah, I noticed there are no guides or walkthroughs here (yet — despite 4 years having passed :P), and I'm kinda stuck. I feel like I'm so close, but that I'm missing one tiny thing. (If you are previewing this thread, stop reading now to avoid spoilers!) My situation is that I recovered 14 "snakes" (for lack of any canonical term), but I don't know what to do next, or whether I'm missing one. I swear there's an ending within grasp if I didn't miss one, but if that's the case, I have n...

Hey, so 7 out of 8 times that I finished Dot World, the game softlocked during the ending animation and either repeated it many times or outright froze. Both resulted in me not getting the snake for the area, forcing a replay of the section. This is new to the port, and in my opinion, utterly unacceptable as it renders an otherwise fun portion of the game into tedious luck/grind. There are similar issues in the Bee World, but not nearly to this degree....