Thank you for your feedback. You can skip a dialog line by pressing the jump button, so pressing jump repeatedly will get you through the dialog quickly. But, I agree that by not bypassing the title screen or dialog at the beginning, it takes you out of the game play for too long. I like the ideas of having extra lives and restarting where you entered a room to retry a difficult area. I'm still learning and making mistakes, so thanks for the advice to improve!