thank you so incredibly much for this thought out and much-needed feedback, literally everything i hoped for
for the technical side, naninovel does a lot of the features! i can't take credit for a lot of the customization options in the settings, but i'm still gonna take your feedback about loving them & plan to code my own versions of those features for a separate game im working on :D
diligently taking notes on your comments about the fade in for the music in loading and the sliders (WHICH BTW THANK YOU THOSE SLIDERS WERE THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE FOR LIKE A DAY so dear god ty, i'm silly for not doing a mask)
and for the game side, i'm actually the artist! :D you can DM me on discord abt using his art! <3 and thank you so much for your compliments about the writing and story, i was worried about the limits i was forcing myself to do with the assets so i'm stoked that it wasn't too immersion-breaking looking at the same thing for a while!!
thank you again for your feedback, taking it to heart <3