This game has some "guess the verb" puzzles with non-standard verbs (Spoiler - click to show)(tip, crush) without much hinting.
I'm not categorically opposed to "guess the verb" puzzles, but you can't have a GTV puzzle in a game with a limited parser, because 99% of the time, the verb you'd reasonably guess won't be supported.
For example, you can't (Spoiler - click to show)smash peanut; you can only (Spoiler - click to show)crush peanut.
The backstory was evocative, but it never became relevant to the lock-and-key puzzle the story was actually about.