Thanks for the critique! I'm really glad you enjoyed it; putting out your first piece of original fiction is always very nerve-wracking, especially considering myself and the artists on board struggled with some IRL happenings towards the end of the jam that really slowed us down. But people seem to enjoy it, and that's all I can hope for.
The sprites I got a bit self-conscious with since we didn't have time to add multiple expressions and clothing variants as I envisioned from the beginning, so I was afraid that having them frequently on-screen with no change in expression or pose would make the scenes feel very flat. I was more focused on making sure all the necessary assets we had were in place. I would've liked to animate the sprites at the very least, but there was no time for that.
The whole third act is also the part I struggled with the most while writing lmao. I rewrote it a handful of times; it was originally way more of a downer that explained far too much, but I think I managed to make it work well enough in time for the deadline. I'm tempted to flesh out the prose for the eventual "1.0 update", but that's the least of my concerns at the moment in regards to additional content.
Again, thank you for reading!
~ Sage