Hello, thank you so much for your comment! Apologies for the delayed response, but we are so grateful for the feedback.
Happy to hear that you like the story so far, as well as the art. I focused up and made as much of the backgrounds as possible in the first two days of the jam (backgrounds and sprites), so that most of what we needed for the story was there. I think I only needed to add the cliffside background while we were in the programming stage. Glad that the soft style worked for you! We really wanted it to contrast with the mystery side of the story, while bringing both together with the music.
Noted on the typo! We'll definitely comb through our script again once we develop it more.
We actually had settings sliders planned, unfortunately there were inconsistent glitches during testing so we had to take it out for the initial push. Rest assured that it's something we plan to have for an update version though!
And yes, in terms of connecting with the theme, while we hinted at it in the intro, we do acknowledge it might not be as obvious. We were happy to take the risk though as to not spoil what we have planned for the story.
Thank you again for your comment, and we hope to get more updates out for this soon