Thanks so much for playing! Really happy you enjoyed :)
As for the bad ends, there are a few in there... but since I didn't get time to make a proper save/load setup, I made them fairly easy to avoid. (And there's always a "try again" option that picks up near the fork/event) The choices do effect the final mini-game, but again, not so harshly as to force the player to do the whole thing over again.
That's a good note about the speaking characters. Maybe if I had the name-plates move under the current speaker graphic it would have been more clear. Something to think about if I update this or do another VN. Though I should probably just learn a proper VN system like Ren'Py or something, haha. Might save me some headaches.
I appreciate the feedback, thanks again!