Hi! Thanks for your feedback, seeing that you took the time to write this much about the game is really heart warming!
We are glad that you liked the game, especially the cutscene and level design as we put a lot of effort into that!
For the feedback about how time is handled, like how maybe we should put the time inflicting mechanic on only some of the gears and stuff, we will take that in consideration for future updates for sure! We are willing to improve the game and make a more complete version of it so, we definetely will look at everyone's feedbacks.
For the fact that it is a little dark in some places, we are aware of the issue, it was previously fixed but caused a big performance issue so we had to remove some lights just before uploading the game, but it will also be fixed in a future update to make the game easier to play and prettier.
Thanks again for the time you took to write us this game review!