I'm not sure if it was intended or not but the transition from day to night, you only had candy but there was a cryptid so you couldn't give them the thing they needed.
Maybe that was the prompt to read the journal, but it was confusing.
Little too easy to detect the cryptids - maybe make the parent's random, don't have the exact script being consistent across all 3 prompts for a given cryptid, etc.
I appreciated that you got less clues as the night went on, but by then you mostly didn't need it