This is really charming! I can see the Dizzy influences already (along with a touch of Okami when you get to cross things off your list with a big horizontal swipe), but it's really... sweet, right from the more peaceful music down to the Green Hill Zone feel to the place you're in. I can see some of the leftovers from CT2 (Todo drops gems when he gets hit by the snails, for example), but that's cool; is there going to be an equivalent for dropping QP or items or something when hit, or is he going to get a health bar like Bernard? Or, alternatively, to keep the more peaceful feel of it, is he going to be invulnerable, but enemies just knock you off platforms or cause similarly annoying effects and make your quest harder?

I found a bug, as well; the way the grab-the-wall grass is positioned next to Mister Ringtail's key, it's possible to jump up and on top of the wall at the edge of the level, then walk left and fall off it and all the way down to the bottom and die from falling off the screen; that's not so much the bug as it is me being a dick and screwing around with the system, but when the scene resets, it doesn't reset your accumulated QP total, meaning that on my first run I scored 91 out of 71 quest points. :P

I'm intrigued by the possibilities of the 'Aladdin's Cave' of teapots halfway down the hill; I keep thinking that if I can get in there, there'll be a Tea Genie or something in one of them. (It's not quite a lamp, but in this housing market, what're you gonna do? :P)

Awesome stuff - loving it so far!

D.F.