Thanks for the feedback first of all. Almost all things will be explained after leaving the forest area. The only thing that won't be explained is what skill levels do, you are right about that, sorry about that. I will add a discription in the tutorial for them as well. There is an indepth optional tutorial about each status effect after completing the tutorial quest. I just didn't want to overwhelm a new player with dozen of tutorial at once, if you get what i mean. Attacks being ineffective is intentional yes since the story tells you to rather avoid fighting.
The visible turn order display being wrong is not intentional as a well as ultimates, charging the bar and the outdated discription. I will fix those as soon as possible. I also will look into the forest items names! How much did you fight there till you reach 20? I'm very sorry for the inconvienince but I also do think it isn't that inconvienient to just go to the key items to look something up. I would understand that point if you would need go back into a library each time but acceccing information from the item menus seems pretty handy and fast to me.
A big thanks to you for the feedback and finding all these bugs, i will see to get them fixed^^