Loving this game, especially the layout and artwork, awesome. Have some thoughts on rules though as below:

Left drains are a nightmare though and frustrating straight from a successful orb shot (target down) and almost seems to be the magnet partly to blame so wondering if this can be addressed, maybe with a short ball save like on Kiss and Groot Multiball. I've tried turning off the magnet and this seems to do the trick so definitely seems to the magnet at fault. Seems to always energise in the same way when releasing from the orb hole rather than randomly. Seems a shame to disable as fun to have the magnet in the game otherwise.

Also tend to get a number of left drains from right loop return onto right slingshot so again if slinghsot power was adjusted maybe these could be reduced.

Sometimes have characters lit during modes but seem independent of lit shots by colour changing inserts so don't know what these do - can anyone advise?

Enjoy the modes but like others have already noted, if playing purely for points, modes are so outweighed by groot multiball, so be good if the scoring opportunities were more balanced. Maybe give more of a bonus for completing modes and let the current awards for competing a mode stay active for that ball or even whole game. Also if shoot flashing shot, counts as 2 hits rather than 1 to make completion easier.

As already mentioned by others, Sanctuary can be timed out to complete which seems a bug.

Would help if mode timer only starts to count down once switch made rather than in shooter lane and paused during extra ball and multiball awards.

Some timers seem to last much more than others with comparable modes and range from 45 to 120. Upgrade does not award extra time for all modes which would help if it did.

Spelling Rocket for 2x scoring needs to at least carry through the whole game rather than reset for each ball (assuming I'm correct here) as not yet got near this award. Maybe just need to spell KET first time round and then CKET, OCKET, ROCKET for subsequent awards, just like Guardians is significantly truncated for first award of bonus x.