Thank you so much for the feedback! It really means a lot! I'm so gald that you meioned the chage of the music, I was sightly worried that people wouldn't notice since it's such a short read.
Yeah, I've heard how people hate the timed choices in general, but I just need an extra choice indicates the protagonist panicked and didn't know what to do (which will affect the following story, very vaguely though). I guess I'll set a longer timer for this one so people can intentionally wait out the timer to get to that branch.
When I was working on the character design I was just trying to make him as vanilla as possible so he could be somewhat relateable. Now that you mentioned James Sunderland, I guess I do see some resemblances, haha.
Thanks for playing my game! So glad you enjoyed it!