I liked your game, the little sprite were so old school haha. Even them music too! There were funny moments in the game like the intro. "this isn't going to be one of those cliche story" lol Some many jrpg's i've played hahah. The fights were a bit too tough though. And a bit too long for my taste. I died fighting the chest at lvl 2. One wrong move and it's over for me. I used staff instead of fire haha. If I had to give another playthrough through the game, I'm sure I could grind out the fights to the forest each day, but that's the devoted gamer I'm talking about haha. For the newer people, maybe you could lower the enemy hp? Instead of 4 strikes to kill, maybe do 2 - 3? and high defense? Idk..
But this reminds me of rune factory, and I love rune factory :D