I got this game for judging in round 2. First, congrats on getting to round 2! Here are my thoughts on this game.
This game tells a solid tale and is well made story wise. My only grip is battle balance felt a little off in the second zone as the sudden jump in difficulty there resulted in a total party wipe for me on the first random battle as I got that battle before even getting to the vending machines to buy the better equipment I needed to survive. I'd suggest maybe using regions to block off the zone up to the machines so the player doesn't get wiped before getting the equipment they need to survive.
Even after getting the equipment though I found random battles just too long and too likely to wipe out my party that I just ran from them all and instead just fought the bosses. I kinda felt like I was expected to grind somewhere before the first boss battle due to the sudden jump in difficulty after defeating it, but with only an hour to judge the entire game I really couldn't stop to grind if I wanted to finish it in time.
Also I do wonder why you had on map encounters in the first area then went to random afterwards? It really took me offguard the first random battle due to that as I was now expecting on map encounters. I'd suggest being consistent here.
Outside of that though I felt the game was well done. I did beat the final boss with almost no time left in my hour to judge. I hope you do expand on this more and I can tell I need to check out your other games sometime.