Cool game.
I think there's a bit of an issue where the game incentivizes extremely tedious behavior. The main culprit is the shield, which can negate many enemies, especially if you also have the armor items. This results in a situation where the optimal behavior is to punch things to death to preserve weapon durability. As far as I can tell, there is no way to access the options menu from the game. This issue would be somewhat less bothersome if you could fast forward, even if you still need to do a lot of meaningless clicking.
Also, the poison area is kind of miserable because, unless you have extreme patience and precision to get exactly the roll you want, it's basically unavoidable to trudge through most of the area with poison from one encounter to the next. It would be nice if resting helped with statuses, even if it only did it partially.