Thank you for your kind comment, Pothos Studios!
Don't blame yourself, I admit that many things are poorly telegraphed in my VN and it's something I should fix. 😆 Yes, I wasn't sure how readable the facial expressions are because it's among the last tasks in my list for this VN and had to rush the art to deliver within deadline. At least it's a learning experience for me to streamline gameplay better for future games from all the comments I received.
To tell the truth I haven't planned the story beyond this jam. And I also have a tendency to start on completely new VN projects that are not linked with anything else, solely to test out new concepts. Personally I love small scope VN jams like this for experimenting. And I'm delighted that you are so enthusiastic about the gameplay and supernatural elements in "Faceless Date".
Since the game mechanic is inspired from "Ace Attorney", maybe that would scratch that itch for you? I only didn't mention it because a lot of VN players are familiar with that series and then they would start to look for statements that contain contradictions, or expect 1-on-1 identical mechanism.