OK, first off... you had me at CUSTOMIZATION! I absolutely love changing up my main character's physical appearance. Love this already!
OVERALL FUN: This was a blast. I loved the different encounters: battles, boss fights, rescuing villages, puzzles, and scenarios... it helped switch up gameplay, and fighting was a good time. However, I didn't find the encounters too challenging. I was breezing through most of them. Perhaps you include more elite or colossal battles sooner... I'd even reach certain level selections that were all "normal" fights. Maybe more variety per line?
ART/GRAPHICS: Great pixel art from the main character, companions, and enemies. Everything went well together, animations were fluid, and the backgrounds looked amazing. Very immersive game!
CONTROLS/UI: Controls were easy to understand and great tutorial, plus you spread out the tutorial as you play, instead of making us learn it all in one go. Helped break up the monotony. The only thing... sometimes the abilities with all the hovering your mouse over the bottom icon, then drag it up to hover over the target... I feel it would be better if you just had this all pop up when you hover over the icon at the bottom while selecting each skill.
SOUND/MUSIC: Really good. The opening music, combat... it all fit the theme and sounded great. Other sound effects were well done and the ability to adjust each one through the settings menu was a nice addition as well.
FEEDBACK:
1. Love that you have voice acting, but sometimes the voice audio is really low and difficult to hear over the music. This can be fixed by adjusting the audio (which I did) but maybe have default dialogue audio a bit higher so we can hear the opening voice acting better, cause it's really good :-)
2. I was a bit confused why enemies changed positions when you could still attack them regardless of where they were. This would make more sense if enemies in the back or middle could only be targeted by certain skills... or do they move around so they can use specific abilities. I wasn't sure why they shifted around. That part wasn't clear to me.
3. I wasn't sure if there was a pro or con to choosing Firedin or Lightis battles. Was there one?
4. I finally got to a merchant, click on them, and nothing happened...