Aw, thank you so much friend, I appreciate the review <3 Yeah sprites are an issue, Dawn's consistent because it's all from one artist but when I decided to put in different characters I kinda winged it. In 1.0 the extra characters are all in the same style with my own sprites, still using the same dawn ones though so hopefully that doesn't clash too much. The quickest romance route is I think in there for people specifically going for it since you have to do pretty specific stuff and ignore just about everything contest related which I don't expect people to do by accident, I guess.
I'm also very happy with how scyther turned out, I didn't expect such a positive reception on something I'd made up myself rather than something about dawn, so that's nice. I would have liked to somehow make a proper battle system with health bars and a cool UI but that's a bit beyond my ability.
There are some bugs in 0.9 that time warp, hopefully I've fixed all those for 1.0. The money system was added when I as still finding my style, I think. I wasn't sure if was going to be a VN or a dating sim where you click around a map and have stats or something, so it's a vestigial holdover from those times. I did attempt to make the characters comment on how many days were left on the cruise in lieu of having a number just pop up on the screen.
I decided pretty early on that I didn't want any bad ends, partly because my little heart couldn't take writing one with dawn mad at you :c my excuse is that this is supposed to be a feel-good fantasy fulfillment story.