Thank you so much for your feedback! About cards, yeah, we didn't manage to implement them properly before the deadline, so we left balance broken intentionally so they just help you to go through the story. But yeah, the plan in postjam version that the stats will go both up and down during the game due to the card usage and responses of the player and NPCs.
Interesting about matching cards and responses, we will look into that.
About portraits, my intention was to make art look childish in a way so the story will be perceived even darker than it's already are because of the contrast of the topic and its art. But maybe it didn't work out that well.
About scenes, yeah, maybe it's actually a good idea for the future stories to try to focus on less characters, we should think about that, especially considering that the game is quite short.
Thank you a lot for your feedback, that's really a lot to think on, thank you!