I wish Steam could give a neutral rating because this game is really a mixed bag.
I'll try to be fair and give both the negative and positive. The main problem is a big one, but afterwards I'll show what I did like.

Main problem
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Everything is held back by a horrendous pacing issue. Someone needs to keep the narrative designer in check because the man is a maniac. They've added the functionality to fast forward through conversations/cut scenes and at a certain point I made the conscious decision to keep that button pressed during 90% of the dialogue. I'm sad to say that even though I skipped all of that dialogue, I was still perfectly able to follow the story. If I were to distill the pacing into a Gen Z sentence, it would be a resounding "Bro's yapping".

The absurdity was raised to another level when, in the penultimate chapter of the story, I was still asked to play mailman and deliver letters to 3 random people in town.

When I'm asked in a game where it feels like the length has been stretched artificially, to repeat certain tasks over and over again...well, it feels like a slap in the face.

The absolute audacity to force me to do errands after I've been skipping 20min of dialogue. It shows a total lack of respect regarding my time.

So...why did I finish it?
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The artwork is absolutely exceptional. I've never seen pixel art as atmospheric and beautiful as in this game. Level; character and boss design were next-level. Even though the combat lacked diversity and I found it overall to be easy, I enjoyed solving the puzzles and I applaud the creativity shown during the 'dungeons' in the final chapters. It's just a shame that only 10% of players will experience it...

In the end I found the story to be pretty ok, but it's held back by the pacing. Without the fast forward button, I would've never had the patience to finish this. The way they explain things in the end, could've been resolved better. They really had to trim the fat and I hope they'll learn from this mistake for their next game. That's why I still recommend this game. Because the talent in artistry and game design is clearly visible here and I want them to get enough funds to learn from this and make an exceptional game next.

Wow...

I've sunk 13 hours into this creation. What do I say?

I've thought a lot about how I would phrase this, and here goes...

It’s clear to me that the creators of this game had a story to tell, but not so much a game to create. When there is gameplay, it's quite fun, and the music is amazing. But this game is 70% story and dialogue. The last six hours of my gameplay felt like a fight against my attention span, with a constant internal argument as I tried my best to just finish the game. I made it to Chapter 6 and finally couldn't continue. I just wanted to get back to the main story and finish the game, but there are endless scripts and side missions forced into the experience.

I simply couldn’t do it anymore. It became mind-numbing, and I started hating every second.

If you're someone who loves a lot of dialogue and wants a wacky animated movie that you get to play occasionally, this is the adventure for you. As for me, I'm just exhausted.

I was really disappointed with this game. The art style and sprites are truly beautiful but the untested feeling game systems and what feels like unpolished combat just made the game not that fun to play and harder to come back to every time I stopped playing. Additionally the world building and story left a lot to be desire. It felt like the creators just kept on adding elements to the game without actually creating probable reason and cohesion for them to all be there. Things aren't explained and the silent protagonist ends up hurting the experience more than anything. Basically nothing is ever explained or well explained and the epilogue was very disappointing and elaboration nothing that happened throughout the game. I do have to say I thought the Boss fights were really interestingly designed and I enjoyed them, although they rarely had visual cues so I felt like I was flailing around wasting resources occasionally because the game didn't show enough to teach you how to battle a boss. The enemies also got boring with time and reused with different sprites later on in the game. While it looks really good and the visuals are very well polished I cannot in good consciousness recommend this game, I would refund it if I could have or simply have never bought it in the first place, I was left disappointing and feeling like I had wasted my time by the end.