Really lovely game, love the sprites, the music and the characters and their personnality conveyed through the dialogue animation, sound and dialog itself.
The trouble I had at the beginning, mostly for finding the key and the fruit almost killed the fun for me though. I think they only spawn based on actions you've taken? And without much of a tell for what's causing it.
The key for example which I'm pretty sure spawns after talking to the lake guy I took way too long aimlessly looking around for. I already checked the fishing rod before talking, and the first time I passed by the lake guy the prompt to talk just didn't show up. Going 5 times through the entire map before finding the first item wasn't super fun.