Thanks for the feedback! You got it all right. One of the initial concept was to be able to go to the different locations in any order, gathering the clues. We also had a second location we wanted to link to the city. We had to scrap all of it due to deadline. We ultimately left the driving in to change the pace of all the VN dialog but yeah, it's totally linear. I still just drive around way too much while testing stuff. I guess part of me just likes aimlessly driving/drifting around :D
All the good feedback is definitely an incentive to make chapter 2 where we can fix all of that for sure!
Cheers!