It's on the itch app version; the game is downloaded through the app and launched through the app.
Right, you are playing it in a version of the Chromium browser then (A portable open-source browser). It seems itch.io disables the Dev tools. You can try removing the game and reinstalling, if that does not work you can try locating the files and opening them in a different browser to see if it is just Chromium behaving weirdly
I launched the game on Firefox, Edge, the Itch App, and now also Chromium.
The Itch app is the only one that doesn't go past the first picture. Even chromium can progress normally.
The colors are normal on Firefox.
Edge and Chromium inherit the system palette still, which may or may not be desirable. At least it's perfectly legible.
such strangeness was had?