This is a really cool take on the time loop concept. I'm much into storytelling, that is a bit meta, and with the starlight concept and the fact that skills are not only for our UI but an ingame topic feels whimsical in the right way. I dunno why itch is bitching about this and i can't write comments on the itch page so take this as encouragement, pls come out of your hiatus dev.

Also if you decide to change engine, whether it beeing godot or an rpgmaker version that isn't older then half the playerbase it would greatly help. The small window (or warping and desktop breaking forced stretch screen) (and i know, that is on the rpgmaker vx ace and not on you) really hurts.