Was fairly excited to check this out, then I saw the parentheses, and I actually closed the game. Fortunately, I went back to double check that I wasn't misunderstanding anything before posting this, and I HAD in fact misunderstood. So, the clarifying statement at the start was not clear to me. I thought you were going to put the entire game's dialogue in parentheses, and I could not figure out why anyone would do that. Now, I think I understand that it's just the narration.
I know this sounds pedantic and over critical, but I'm trying to be helpful. Seriously, I almost gave up and quit playing because of this. First, those are not brackets, they're parentheses. More importantly, I think I get what you were going for with saying that text is "in the present," but I think it would be much more clear if you just said, (The text in parentheses is narration.)
With that off my mind, I can go back to actually play.