This was a nice RPG Maker game. The story seems well written, and there is nice world building. The towns feel well designed. This is a good start. I like your brief description of the missing cutscene before transitioning.
We ran into an error that prevented continuing the game. When fighting basic slimes, when they attack it gives a "Loading Error" "Failed to load: img/animations/Cure4.png". We first got this just after saving so reloaded and played a bit more, but ran into it again in another fight.
Due to the bug, and trying to get to playing more jam games, we did not get far, but will try to come back and play more later, after the bug is fixed.