Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for playing!
For the dialogue, I rewrote everything for the game jam (fairness purposes). So I didn't have enough time to properly test the skip dialogue when you click. It definitely worked beforehand. Also, I think I made the delay way too long as well.
I understand what you feel about loose. Its not because of the physics. So basically when I was making 2D platformers, tutorials told me to add some acceleration to make it feel less robotic. I use Vector3.Lerp(a, b, Time.deltaTime * someNumber) to smoothen the motion but I think I overdid it. I made it snappier in the development, non-gamejam version. Simple fix
Also can you explain this portion, if you don't mind? "Many tutorials are very wrongheaded about stuff like that. For something like this to be snappy it has to be much more simple and direct. "
Thanks anyways for trying my game jam entry out!