Played as much as I could in the old version and just got as far as I could in this new version. Pretty good so far. Glad you're feeling better to work on the game again.
When reading the text in the old version, your power would let you click words to see the "true" meaning behind/what the other character was thinking. I don't know if you're gonna come up with a way to replace that idea in this new one or not. Maybe I missed the example of what you did in the start of the game. But for example, the shrine maiden tells you her dream and says how she "Fu--, blah blah." maybe put in brackets for other conversations what they may have meant? unless you plan to make it easy to figure it out like that little bit.
Anyways, sorry for being sidetracked.
1. So my main suggestions are make the road on the world map a bit bigger if you can? or maybe have a more zoomed in version of the world, cause right now the road kinda gives a route but I was able to travel off into the trees and wasn't able to walk all parts of the road.
2. Give the enemies a health bar? It's been awhile but pretty sure you were able to tell the health of the enemies before.
and that is the only two major things that I can currently think of that bothered me a bit while playing. But again welcome back and good job so far!