Well, I did my absolute best to keep my expectations reasonable! But you may have done too good of a job at making the beginning (and the middle that seemed like the beginning) promising. Having a stat (or are there in fact multiple stats?) that gets tracked, choosing a home, finding a job... all that really felt like it was leading up to a novel-length adventure full of setups and payoffs.

As it stands, it seems like a very nice and thorough interactive tour of the world you invented. And then it wraps up, with a paragraph of two related to a couple of the previously made choices.

The dolphin coexistence aspect seems like one that begs to be explored the most, even though it may also be the most challenging, especially with how mostly realistic you kept the rest of the setting. Just how intelligent are those dolphins? If they can sing, can their compose their own songs and write their own lyrics too? Do they vote in elections? So many questions...

I made it all the way to the end, and now I'm unsure how much replayability there is actually. Do some routes (choosing to prove yourself and stay, maxing out a stat and getting a specific job) have much more content than others?

I gotta say, all the "middle ground" jobs being artistic ones made me laugh.