Hey thanks for making this awesome game, congrats on killing it! Great choice of gameplay, you really captured the characters expression. I noticed you even have keyframes of lip sync, which is a nice touch. It made a big difference compared to most static VN's. Another effective reusing of assets its with the poses, keeping the torso the same but using the face/arms to convey expression (well played!).
Art style is dope, its unanimous (plus you can actually tell the characters are believably adults).
The delivery of the story is great, the characters feel for the most part geniuine in this world. Minus some of the crying expressions lol, I think you were missing an emotion for sad and used the one with tears (pixie encounter for ex). This is awesome, it's like a familiar friend you like that wants to get comfy and crack jokes with you but in a fantasy adventure kind of way.
The world is beatiful and alive. From the warm candle lit tent, the smoke from the chimneys, twinkle of the water, and the animated rabbit/wolf, etc, are again simple but effective use of your resources, creating the comfy fantasy world.
If I were you, I wouldnt worry about progressing the story too quickly, I'm enjoying exploring the intricasies of the world. Talking with characters/events but one thing to add is objects that can be inspected and hidden throughtout the scenes that could give further insight in the lore/characetrs/etc.
Time to wrap up this is v long lol..
TL;DR Since my first review got rejected as inappropriate, I rate this 5/5, and everyone should sit back by the campfire and crack a cold one with the gypse while we wait for the adventure. No rush