
There's a little distance bar at the top showing the player and the monster in relation to how far they are towards the end of the level.
What do you mean stricter effect? They slow you down and the monsters get closer and closer. If you don't speed up and hit nothing but rocks, you'll most definitely be eaten. If you speed up, you won't.
As far as visual styles go, I'm not sure what I can do about that. I'm not exactly the best with graphics. I just make what I can. :P But I can definitely look into tweaking it somehow!