Hello, and again this is really great work.
I actually did watch someone who played this game too afterwards and I noticed that their selection for a beginning question helped resolve a lot of my uncertainty I had at the beginning when I played.
SPOILER
It was the question, “Do you believe in what they’re saying about the witches’ curse?”
I had picked, “I suppose not.”
But the gameplay video someone else did picked, “Yes, I do.”
When seeing the “Yes I do” response it really helped me to understand their world better.
Whereas the selections I made I don’t remember an explanation of how the townspeople viewed the legend exactly in general. Nor history of the town itself being very clear.
Believe it or not but when I heard at the beginning of the story that Kael had just appeared with medieval knowledge and getup in town I was thinking he may be from another dimension or world, or realm. Basically not from her world. Or that there was an underground secret magical society similar to Harry Potter. And that she might be a descendant of someone who magically traveled to her world from a magical world.
But, I never thought that their town’s history had a palace and kingdom with a witch and everything in the past. I guess it was more like I thought the town had a fairytale about a witch from a magical world who happened to come to their world and town. But they all thought it was fictitious.
In retrospect I can see how that probably should be obvious that the town was where the palace had been—but the townspeople just thought the magic part of the story was fictional and possibly that the witch was fictional. (Or maybe they do know magic existed?) But it’s true when I read through I didn’t pick up on the palace being a literal part of their history until much later and didn’t understand it as well as I would have if I had seen the “Yes I do” dialogue.
So, I dunno it that helps but maybe I suggest considering adding some dialogue to the No response that still tells the history.
Sorry I am a long winded speaker. But it’s really cool and hope you get time to write more.