Yo!
I have to admit, this is the first time I had to do this, but I ran a Cheat Engine program over your game to speed it up. Could not bear with the slow walking speed, but I absolutely wanted to play the game!
(For reference: The game was sped up to about 5-10x the normal speed)
Anyway, here's my "sped up" experience:
The engine caused the character freeze on each dialogue to be on a 4 second timer instead of being during the whole talk, which meant that I could walk around while still listening to the NPCs talking. That felt great, as I could go exploring while they were still talking to me. (Could be a feature?)
Being the friendly neighbor that I am, I wanted to assure that everyone was having a great time!
So naturally, as soon as I heard the sentence "do not go near my garden" I was fire and flame to destroy it to the last crop.
Obviously, after hearing the dwarf-like lumberjack saying "do not go near my house with that fire", it was almost magical how fast my character moved towards his house.
And of course, after hearing that I am not allowed in any way to pick up a mushroom for the soup, I felt the primordial urge to collect every mushroom on the map.
To my regret, the speed-up came back to bite, cutting off the final scene mid-animation (as the animation was sped up too), immediately restarting the game without letting me listen to the end :(
But I digress.
Feedback:
The music is perfectly fitting, the art is amazing (I'm a fan of poly), the character animation is... non existent? But I understand that it''s really hard if you have to do it on scratch, I struggled a lot myself too... The other animations (cam, cinematics, etc) were on point!
The dialogues and humor were on point, the whole story was pretty cool too, I'm amazed at how big the game is (the world and interactions) in the short time frame that you had. It is big but it is not TOO big to get bored of it (except on normal speed, which I will get to now).
The speed:
Guys. I love your game, but if I hadn't sped it up, I would have closed it before even reaching the second NPC. Please consider speeding your game up. Making someone walk from A to B also means that besides those dialogues, the player does nothing other than walking.
Yes, I know that you put a sprint key in, no, it did not help my case at all: Sprints are cool in games where the sprint is limited, but if your character is slow and you can sprint indefinitely, you're basically forcing the player to press SHIFT during the whole session for no reason.
If I need half a minute / a minute to walk to each NPC and I have to do that multiple times, I am not going to have a great time. The same counts for the dialogues: I love listening to them, but please do not freeze my character, I get anxious if I have to listen to a dialogue and "not play the game" while someone talks for a minute on every dialogue.On a side note: The lumberjack sounded like a dwarf, but I liked it. I am however questioning the sexuality of the geologist, but I did understand from the game dialogues that he likes hard things.
tl;dr: Game is too slow, but it is hella fun! Thanks!