Good to hear. I will admit I'm bad at video games lol. I imagine the getting left behind by Stella hurt more when she was still missing like half her attacks and me forgetting to save made it not worth reloading. Definitely not locked out, just in that situation I would go grind out a level or two but was story locked to needing to power through.
I will say I was trying not to use hints at the time so I was thinking that I could rescue Jade and get the dojo back as an option. Not realizing it was locked behind boss two for a while.
Definitely all minor gripes, I think it's going great. I don't really have any other issues and I'm only at chapter 3, which made the pain of before worth it right away. I think you're hitting a great level of meta humor too, playing with it without bashing the player over the head. That said AG is right about that harem ending! lol
Looking forward to the weekend to keep playing!