Hey Cash! Thanks so much for the review! This was actually the first game I have ever made, (I made it a full game too although there are plenty of spelling errors and bugs here and there. ) I know for a fact I need to balance the battling system better and I honestly didn't realize how much meta-humor I ended up putting in the game. XD But yes, this game is VERY self-aware.
Regarding the repetitive joke for the closets being scandalous, in the long run after the game jam was done, I knew I wanted to post this on Steam and have the scandalous closets turn into an achievement like "You inspected every closet in the game! How Scandalous!"
I saw the video of you playing through my game and regards to knowing about those goblins and what the whole deal with that was you ended up skipping the cutscene that would explain more about that. When Cadence asks "Do you want me to explain what happened?" There was a yes or no option and you selected "No" so that ultimately skipped the cutscene. I think in the future for story direction, I should make that cutscene unskippable.
For the game show, technically you can quit to the title screen and reload your last save. Since the game saves right before entering the game show area. I already have a way to make that more obvious by changing where the game will save and have the host mention it at the beginning the first time a player enters the area.
Funny you mention buddy cops because there was an optional battle in the first town after getting Cadence and Beatrice in your party where you're pretty much-playing cops and robbers with one of the kids.
For what to do in the second town, it was mentioned the moment you enter the town to gather intel. I'm already trying to find a way to add a hint system option for the player if they need direction on what to do to progress the story.
Too bad you couldn't make it to the fox village, but you wouldn't have been able to make it there anyway since there is a progression block in the second town that I didn't realize when playtesting.
All in all, Thank you for playing! I am looking into all these bugs and going through all the dialogue for the game and fixing the many, MANY errors. This has been a great learning experience for me, and hopefully, I can have a fully polished game updated after the game jam.