Writing these messages makes me realize though that I've never made any sort of chart to visualize all these things and how they are connected. Maybe I'll do that, lol

It's a lot having to manage quaternions related to camera rotation and player rotation as well as managing the gravity vector and rotating the movement vector to align with the correct direction.

If anyone has an idea what the issue might be or any quaternion tips I'd appreciate the information. While I certainly understand quaternions better than I have before they have always been fairly tricky for me to conceptualize.

I am not going to worry so much about how I approach everything so I approach thing. I'm going to be weird and inconsistent and we'll see how that goes!

I find it difficult to plan and then act upon my plans so I feel like I have to be mindless about my actions to move forward with anything, hence the "unhinged" option. I'd rather be doing something as opposed to nothing, even if what I'm doing isn't my priority.

It's nice to know this is a universal experience with that red coin star

Also this

I downloaded a King Dedede model and couldn't help myself, the video was the conclusion to the tangent

Thank you and feel free to add me, I appreciate it!

There is no double jumping (yet), I think my jump particle effect may be deceiving you. I'm definitely going to look into changing the effect later down the line.

There is wall jumping as well as a wall jump variant (hold jump before hitting the wall) that increases horizontal momentum.