Here have a wip of me getting dialogue, choices, and level swapping working. All that art is place holder, I just wanted to post about it cause I'm proud of getting most of this stuff to work and look somewhat polished even if it's very much still a wip :)

Still have to figure out the exact aesthetic of overworld navigation but I'm thinking something along the lines of chicory in that it's gonna be simple and monochromatic. The objective is to actually finish a game for the first time in years lol