Looking at this from my personal view in the context of it being for a jam:
I really like the style, and the presentation. The text is super fast in the beginning, but that's been pointed out. The town map was extremely charming and I felt well done, and fun to explore. The world map was easy on the eyes, and I felt very excited to look at everything.
The woods battles, as mentioned, were too much - for me, they were actually non-stop, and I was unable to escape as I had set the battles to auto, and could not figure out how to set them back. I ended up stopping in the forest.
I also found what I think was a debug room by examining the well...whoops @.@
I will look very much forward to updates and playing this game in its intended form!