Thanks so much for playing, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!! The branching dialogue was a pain on my end as well haha, especially because I tried my best to make each choice have unique dialogue and some choices lead to several routes. I think I wrote twice as much dialogue as anyone would see on a normal playthrough, so you probably dodged a bullet by not heading too far down that road lol.
And thank you so much for the compliment on the writing!! This is my first time writing for a game, and it was a lot harder than I expected to convey both character attributes and themes without being too on the nose (earlier versions of ELLA-M were both more sarcastic and got depressed much earlier/more drastically). I'm gonna keep trying to improve, but I really appreciate the encouragement on my current state!