Thank you for the kind words! I'm pretty happy with it. As for the flaws you are 100% correct. The light side of the world is near pitch black which makes no sense, it should be lighter to further differentiate between the light and dark side. Also there is glowing gear, a sword and a shield each glows as much as a torch. The game does a terrible job telling you about it. As for spamming the attack button, that's a very unfortunate bug. Took 1 minute to fix after I learned about it. Oh well.
For the text I highly recommend learning Ink by Inkle Studios (open-source interactive dialog system). It's absolutely amazing and makes large complex changing dialog trivially simple. Really a great time-saver.
As for the map, my next crawler will either have one or I'll put a lot more effort into making sure it doesn't need one. I still get lost in the forest and the Beasts Who Walk lands all the time!