This looks different in an interesting way.
There's a couple of things that are a bit annoying though. It insists on resetting the music volume every time it starts and that game save name dialog is at close to bottom left where it merges perfectly with some menu text making it almost invisible.
Ideally, don't touch the volume once the player has set it and please allow us to turn that game save name 'feature' off - I don't use that and don't particularly want it, or at least put it in a better location.
I do agree that having the option to turn it on or off would be a good idea. However, IMO the save game naming dialogue should be very easy to ignore; just press
Esc on your keyboard and the save will happen without any custom name. I also think its location right now isn't bad at all.
It's not on top of any of the other text, is outdented from the menu alignment, and only shows up at that specific time. It could be done more like I've seen in some other games, however, where there's a centered Vbox (that can be styled easily to be opaque so it doesn't seem to blend with what's beneath it). Those named save dialogues feel considerably better. (The worst, I think, are those that are placed up by the "Page 1" text, so either the name of the saves is extremely limited — 12 characters is
not enough — or the text overlaps the "Page 1" text, making for an ugly experience.)
As for the volume sliders, I see what you describe, but
only for the
Background Music Volume slider. (To be fair, at least most of the time, that's the only sound in the game.) I adjusted the
Animation / Main Menu Volume and the
Sound Effect Volume sliders, and they stayed at the adjusted levels after closing and reopening the game.
So I think there's a bug with the
Background Music Volume slider. If not, it could be the code being used was misunderstood by the dev as a default level and not as something that forces the volume to reset despite the settings the player chose that normally are saved in the
persistent file. Either way, I agree that it definitely should be changed for later releases. It's pointless to have a slider that doesn't keep the volume at that level with later sessions of playing the VN.