I liked it!
To improve the game, some suggestions might be:
For me it was fine, but for a player who may be very new to playing games, that first boss just staying still for just a little bit longer in that way with no other cue, may be a bit cryptic or confusing for some players. I thought it was fine, so I'm not sure about this being any issue, even for someone very new to playing games.
I think there might be a bug, after going in the part that diverges into three paths that change every time - after that, going back down just shows a static screen of the cabin, and I think it's not possible to play anymore after that without reloading the page and starting from the beginning. Before that point though, it was working really well.
Some more minor improvements could be there's audible functionality still happening in the background during dialogues if you press the walk or attack buttons, maybe it shouldn't be there while dialogue is playing.
However I really did like this game.
I was curious what would happen and died in parts even where it was pretty easy not to die, and I noticed that the game resets really cleanly and pretty close to where you were.
You did an excellent job on this game - very nice submission!