Thanks so much for the compliments!
That's a good point about the cat, I realized only after submission that the player is tutorialized to talk to the three outside but not the cat and that's def something we should've fixed
The dialogue thing is something we were definitely aware of, but unfortunately by the time we got to implementing the dialogue system there were only a few hours left until submission so we left it slower so as not to prevent people from missing anything if they read slower.
I'll message our coder and see if we can't fix those two up after the jam is done!