I just.
Wow.
I knew there was a reason this level has taken so long to come out, and this intro alone has already im-pressed me. I thought Dragon Myth, Deep Freeze, and Advena were already impressive enough, but... this...
This feels like an actual professional indie game released within the past five years that has gotten quite a following just from the intro alone. This is the kind of stuff I would see from NITW, Oxenfree, Kentucky Route Zero, Firewatch, ...
Just. Keep going. Once you feel you're ready to release this, do it. Don't let the end product be sloppy. Make the gameplay + ending live up to the hype the intro brings.
You can do this.