had ton of trouble trying to get through this game and levling up
Welcome to RPGMaker. There's something very..."special" about the RNG in the engine, so every so often you get a very odd run of the same result. I've tried my best to mitigate the worst examples, but it does crop up at weird times. From what I've playtested the attack shouldn't break TOO terribly though; you just get a back run of luck once in a while. Certainly not enough to make the game unbeatable.
Sorry it hasn't been working for you. So you're saying you swung the normal attack 40 times and only hit 3? Haven't been able to reproduce: I just ran a few battles, and out of 13 regular attacks I only got one miss. To be clear, if you're hypnotized you will miss a lot and your damage goes down. But normally the vast majority of regular attacks should land (and about 2/3rs of the special attacks). You didn't manage to unequip the weapon somehow, did you? That SHOULD be impossible, unless you downloaded an earlier version, but just want to cover all possibilities. Which boars are you fighting? By "first battle" do you mean the 3 blocking the entrance in the beginning?