It keeps respawning you above the water, over and over. You can't do anything! Also hitching a ride on the sailboat is annoying since it doesn't push you along, but I guess that's a limitation of the engine.

How to get to the east island without an umbrella. It seems the speedrun strat for that has been "patched" out.

is this a bug or a weird artistic decision?

I have 49 coins and i can't find last one. I run around and don't see glow anywhere wwith my amulet. I checked two times if there's no fruits on the trees but don't see any, unless there's secret tree somewhere. Any idea which coin i might be missing?

So I don't want those hand-holding walkthroughs, but I'm stuck on a point in the game. I currently have one moon and one of the gems, but I am stuck. What am I supposed to do at this point?