Well, being something of an ex-second-guesser myself, I would say that maybe it's good you didn't have time to try and make it more of an action game rather than interactive fiction.
Some people want to be reminded that things are predictable, and others are disappointed when they actually are. So to that extent, um, I'm just going in circles
I have just the thing, though, for the first part, (assuming you will work on this more, and if you are like me, you probably won't)
which is, have a thing, a text-history thing, where someone can re-read the things they either didn't catch or were interesting enough to look at again. Say if I wanted to look up what something was, but am not going to replay the game to see what it was called.
As we all know, Aqua's most popular song is probably Barbie Girl, and yet I didn't get much of a Barbie feel in this game. a lot of space for growth here. :P
Well, Doctor Jones is a very terrestrial vibe, you know, it's in a jungle, and involves the infatuations of gendered relationship
nah nah,
I actualy had no idea of any Aqua until the last few days when I was like, "I really want to listen to a bunch of Aqua's songs because I had this idea I didn't run with of... finding an Aqua song to make my game around." And while listening to Aqua I was impressed. I'm like wow, they have a lot of good bops. I was under this false impression that Barbie Girl was some kind of one hit wonder. When really, Cartoon Heroes is also a real banger.
So if I had heard Dr Jones before hearing Cartoon Heroes, I may have still had room for it.
Though, for your game, I think Major Tom by David Bowie is a far better fit. I really like that song, it really does help me imagine floating in space. Like, maybe they'll put me on a spaceship with internet, and I'll be even happier, because it means even more time being the universe's biggest video game nerd.
But also, the Barbie movie is pretty goated. women are pretty great