1: The ice walls are positioned where they are to hide plants and huge curtains of flowing water. But that's a weakness, fair cop.

2: I could, but my intention was to keep the information available to the player to double-check. Otherwise I'd just have used a one-off pop up dialog with a reach marker.

That said, if the effect is just really distracting/strange, maybe I'll change it.

(I really appreciate the feedback, by the way!! I definitely learned a lot after doing the first mission, and I was trying to achieve some difficult stuff in the second)