Hey there, thanks for the kind words and giving the game a go!
When making this, I was definitely inspired by those older RPG maker games you seem to get less of these days so I'm glad you picked up on that :)
I think both you and the previous post raise some good points about pacing and it's definitely something I'm going to take into a future project if I deicide to do one (I plan to get this one bug free first).
You can use 'pagedown' to skip quickly through text so that may make the repetitiveness a bit more bearable.