JustNotFatal and Aymi I totally agree with you.
I made a new account to test...
All the beginning is really smooth and then all of a sudden "THE END" and click boom you have an expected popup ("wasn't it the end? Oh no I get a girl and a world...") and a map with plenty of stuff.
So you don't really know where to click + the map is not sexy compared to the style in the stories so the constrast is really shocking.
For players like me that are used to FTP and RPG it's classic mechanics so I found my way around BUT I'm not surprised that players already not so motivated or skilled would drop there because all of a sudden it becomes a hassle.
Imo you can fix this pretty easily since other parts of your intro are smooth there's no reason you can smoothen that one too!