Thanks for streaming the game! I’m glad you liked the opening: this was made for the Interactive Fiction Competition 2024 specifically, so I was aiming to use RPG Maker for the kind of choice-based gameplay you might normally expect in a Twine game or visual novel.
I’m not super familiar with RPG Maker - I think this was only my third complete game with it - but I actually found it pretty good for setting up those little scenes. The autosaving was the only thing I really had to write any code for: not much, just enough for it to happen entirely in the background. There are a fair few branches later on, and each save goes in a fresh slot so you can revisit any chunk you like.