Thanks for the feedback. I played a TON of Earthbound while making this demo, and I loved the dialogue, so I did try to mimic it without it coming off as a ripoff. I do agree with you on everything you said about the forest area, and I will admit it was very rushed. I've begun work on the following wild areas and it definitely does open up more as you progress. I made the forest really linear as not to confuse people, but because most of my audience WILL be people who have already played RPGs, I'll probably go back and jazz it up later. I've already added new enemies and have changed the UI so the game won't be recognized as an RPGMaker game, too. I have a decent knowledge of RPGMaker, but the demo was rushed and released too early for sure. I just wanted to make sure the game could run on other people's computers properly, tbh XD