A beautiful game will an excellent flow to it. I love how you added links in the end credits!
There is much potential for this to grow, so I'll add a few suggestions:
- More interactions and improved dialogue with the other mermaids. I love the character designs but thought the writing could be more developed and varied with pacing. Use pauses when necessary.
- Some diversity in music. It works thematically but I found it got a little bit repetitive.
- More nuanced requests. Allow the garden to be shaped in ways that require more creativity and complexity.
- Moving NPCs. Fish, mermaids with pathing, big sea creatures. Give them the ability to interact with your garden. Maybe some of them are dangerous or disruptive to add a sense of tension that is missing.
- Cutscenes with dynamic camera transitions to highlight character interactions. Helps change perspective from being top-down 100% of the time.