The shortness was great too because it made replaying it to try different things very manageable! Some games take a whole day or more to play through and so trying to test out different things requires too much commitment for me, haha.
But it was still long enough to feel like a nice story, like you said ujac, the dialogues were relatively believable. It wasn't like "pizza man shows up and is banging the housewife 10 seconds later" 😂! Plus swashbucklery! Daring rescue!