Thank you so much! It was my first time working with a bright palette, a lot of the aesthetics are really just happy little accidents caused by working with colors I don't typically use. The palette is Curiosities by sunikapan on lospec by the way, if you want to use it for your own art.
Now that you mention it, there definitely should be a dialogue indicator, I must've accidentally removed it during development, but it was there at some point :^). It had a pretty boring animation though, I'll definitely keep that in mind as a detail for future projects.