Hey there! Your assets look stunning. the colors and mood is so well set! first thing i did notice, might be personal preference, but the look up/down on the mouse being inverted gives me struggles. First of all i did jump out the map, just to see what happens - tipp for other players: dont do that. Maybe consider placing an invisible wall around the map because i am left no other options but restarting the game. And as i did alt tab to type my first thoughts in here i noticed: the game just closed itself :(
The water sound is just beautiful, same goes for the birds (except one sound i am not sure of what it even is, its not to bad tho!) Walking through the water and leaving it again makes it disappear sometimes, visually still amazing tho! (no crash on my 2nd attempt to alt tab)
the mouse tho is really giving me a hard time to controll the character as i keep looking under the map and often vision is blocked by trees, which made me a little afraid i would walk of the map again because i cant see anything. (i would love an option to zoom in and out to the character (smite e.g has that option)
Visually absolutly something i would love for my own projects, if i had any :D you did a great job on the assets and as you say yourself: its more a portfolio then an actuall game atm: good job! :)
Edit: in case you would want to implement a day/night cycle i would love to see some rly soft ground fog to it, paired with a sky full of stars..
your game makes me start dreaming, really inspiring!