I got this one for judging in round one, so here are my thoughts:
I like the idea of this game. It feels like an adventure game more than an RPG, which is a nice change of pace. There weren't many battles except for when I had to go into the basement to get supplies, and those I handled just fine. Though I never did get any attack but my default one to work well. Also if you are going to have a timing gauge I have to use on attacks, I really shouldn't miss on a perfect still. May want to adjust that some.
However I hit a glaring issue in Chapter 2. The sliding phoenix puzzle. The key to reset showed up as a blank key and the key to give up said Shift + Give up as your give up text covered up what key I was supposed to hit. I tried every Shift + key on my keyboard and none of them worked. In the end I spent my entire hour judging on that puzzle and didn't manage to solve it, so that was as far as I got.
I do think you got a decent idea, and with some fixing of that Chapter 2 puzzle it could be a really good game though.