Firstly, thanks for the excellent feedback. I appreciate it.
Chuckl609 did have a good suggestion and I will probably use something in relation to it.
That's good to know about the images. I was thinking I would need to put them on a higher image layer and then lower them down, but preloading them will be easier to do.
The lab is intended to be a scenes only location. I could technically make it accessible and let the player examine parts of it, but the gallery is the intended way to interact with it.
I can look for other music. I also noticed that this music is used by, basically every other RPGM game so far lol.
It is kind of funny making reward events for failing. I'm going to make an extra scene for each region once you beat them. They are going to take a bit to make though. Hmm, maybe i should also make a scene for when you rescue enough people too.
The money is kind of a weird left over from the original concept for the game which was that you had to earn 1 million coins to pay for your resurrection. As I scrapped that idea money has become much less important, especially since there will be no actual battles. Oh, I could make usable items that reduce essence or something along those lines.