That response to the ending crawl was the exact same one my team had when they first read what I wrote and I LOVE IT.
"What begins to awaken Req" - "The sequel, obviously" :P
We had so much fun on this project and I could see fleshing it out into a proper title! Very glad you enjoyed it and picked up what we were putting down!
As for the tutorial. Hear ya loud and clear on that. Our initial design had those Dialogue windows popping up as the player encountered things for the first time to teach you along the way. Giving you time to connect the action with the information. But time and scope being what it is... I had to do a tutorial sprint just to make sure people were armed with info to do anything at all.