I was kind of surprised at how negative this commentary is about the game! I really liked it!!
For a game made in one hour, it's shockingly well tuned, I juuuuust barely had enough resources to finish, it felt amazing. And the gimmick of having to find another route to escape was a great surprise moment. I don't know if I would say there's "too much stuff" here, everything serves a purpose. As for the skills, maybe they don't serve as much of a purpose, but... I guess it depends on how long they took to add, it's just RPG Maker stuff, right? So if it doesn't take away from something else, I don't see the harm in adding a little bit of spice to the combat.