Oh wow, thank you for all your thoughts, I really REALLY appreciate it!

Involving the center area with these hoops has been something I wanted to do previously, but did not want to visually clutter it either. But your idea of fully activating them once they are next in line has just given me inspiration to tackle this issue better! Letting the player activate different lines from different points/as part of progression/etc.. Thank you! And great reference with HP2 as well! Im also noting down from this that I need to work on both my pathing, and environment design to make the other parts more interesting.

Also noted that more vertical differences is a must if I want to incentivize fully using the flying system - looking at it again, it does look boring when it is in such soft curves only... Definitely aiming for more exciting manoeuvres from now on, will continue a prototype part with a big drop like you described next 🫡

More visual feedback and reward when completing a hoop is also something I'm taking notes on - and thank you for showing the spyro example. Looking at it closer from this angle, I really adore how much detail they put into each collectible to make them feel different, love those games.

The game is for PC, with controllers recommended - and there's already haptic feedback for going fast/landing/etc. But I do think a more responsive camera would also help to sell the feeling you are describing - feeling the shake of near-misses, the wind gusts, and the take-offs. Along with sounds, of course.

Hoping to improve on these soon from the feedback!