HAHA thank you so much and yeah the file size is insane, this was after converting all the gifs so webp because previously I couldn't even upload to itch bc 1GB file limit but the kicker is that the biggest problem is just the final act's 2 wibbling water animations that previously were 1GB combined.
the issue is that water animations in anything are astoundingly enormous! I'm not sure of the technical details but the engine I used (Tuesday js) has rare animated image support, and the animated bg has to be a image file and not a movie file because the text boxes can't be superimposed upon a movie file like they can upon an image file.
tl;dr the 2 animated bgs of heartbreak and wibbling at the end singlehandedly bloated the file because I wanted to make them wet meow and wet ouppy