Thank you, I’m really glad the writing landed!
Honestly, it was purely the time constraint — I actually wanted branching dialogue based on earlier choices, but I was traveling for most of the jam and only had about a day or less to actually write/build everything, so the “same ending regardless” ended up being more of a scope cut than a deliberate statement. Would love to go back and add real branching in a post-jam version if I get the time!
I really appreciate you playing it twice to check that’s more attention than most jam entries get! Thanks for the feedback <3