Some small bugs I found, along with a comment about your empty title screen
empty title scren? ok, some words would be nice but whatever
no music on the title screen and first 3 maps. I went into the editor to add it, much better.
typo in Peach's opening dialogue, extra space "I dropped my pearl pendant..."
when I gave the pend-er trinket back, some of the sentences didn't have periods.
and after giving it back and getting some of her pie, I was able to talk to the sink and get the trinket again.
there seems to be many missing periods
the shopkeeper is asking for help and there is an extra space in front " I was at the park to have breakfast..."
the first guy you see when going in the park looks weird. his eye and part of his face isn't moving with the rest of him. it looks odd.
at the beach, the person near the start has a non capitolized i in their dialogue. "I wasted my whole summer... and when i finally decide..."
in the ghost forest, the ghost guards dialogue has a period without a space after it "only ghosts and witches are allowed in here.you seem pretty dark..."
then after noticing you have repellent, his line is missing a word it seems like "Hold on for a sec... Uh, what do have to do again?"
he then says he's one of 3, but guardians is spelled wrong. check the others, i think they all have it spelled wrong.
when you get past jimmy fries, on the next map, in the bottom left corner a tile from a tree is missing.
on this same map, it seems like there are tiles missing along the top. its empty space on the pink side then on the green side there are tiles along the top. *after looking in the editor I see there are no tiles for up there. there should be!*
same map, about halfway into the green side there is a tree missing a tile.
even for a short game, saving is a good idea. if I have to leave suddenly and I did some stuff it would suck to have to do it over again.
Is this really your first game? You got everything right. No glaring gameplay issues. You even used switches to alter dialogue. Slow walk speed can be irritating if the maps are too large and there is a lot of back-tracking. You had a good balance, just keep that in mind.
Rooms were spacious, not empty, and had things. They all felt full of life from the characters personalities and the dialogues.
I genuinely laughed many times xD that's pretty rare for me.
The graphics are the best part, imo. I love pixels and this kind of style is right up my alley. The NPCs are all unique and like psy_wombats said, they have excellent animations. All so quirky.
Did you compose the music yourself? They weren't full, quite bare actually, but they set the mood perfectly. Matches the graphics. What about the sound effects? Is this fully custom?
There's a lot of extra files in your download, it looks like the RTP is included. It's mostly the unused music files that inflate the download size. It's not huge, but since you didn't use any RTP(right?) you can setup the game so it doesn't need RTP. If you care, I can explain how.
Despite being all pink and girly, I really enjoyed everything about this game. Keep it up! ^.^