thank you for the kind words and spending your time to play the game!! :)
you're right about the dialogue options! it was in part due to not having enough time, but also i was worried about drowning the players with too much stuff to click on. having a longer game in a jam is already a big ask considering the amount of entries and generally the amount of time people are willing to spend on a game they didn't fully "choose" to play, so i tried not to overwhelm anyone and make the game relatively easy to finish while still showcasing the main idea. it did make it so that there's pretty much nothing to explore outside of the main "quest" though
and hey, just in case you only watched the main game LP, echoes of the eye is absolutely worth getting outer wilds for! :P