Hello Genericide, thank you for your feedback! Those are all issues that are being solved. The battle system was changed to a more instant type of battle, that doesn't require the player to wait. In addition characters will start off with one or two skills like you suggested.
We are aware of the repetitive music and plan to change it.
As for the bug, yes it's nasty bug that appeared due to a sound script I had implemented, it is fixed now :)
Once the judging time of the contest ends I'll release a new version with all these fixes, hope the game is a lot more enjoyable then.
Thank you!