I'm glad you're working on improvements and part 2, and thank you so much for playing and rating!
I'm happy you enjoyed even though it isn't usually your kind of game. To address the game closing: There is an easter egg where if you skip the girl's dialogue when she first appears, she will warn you not to do it again, and if you skip again, she will crash the game. Also, the text moving at different speeds during the character selection is somewhat intentional, like how it moves really slowly when picking the boy. There are two different outcomes to the fight, new dialogue upon a second replay, all that good stuff :)
When I get time, I'll look back into parts 1 and 2. Thanks for pointing out the ladder thing! I tried to consult the gameplay video from NolanAlighieri about it, but he stopped playing before he got that far :( I might reach out to him about playing my game. I'm interested to see where Sapphire City goes, best of luck to you!