I loved the saturated colors of this art-style, and the reflections in the water was a nice touch, as well as the camera-movement and animations!
I realize you didn't have time to finish it, but in my mind, you should have us go back to the quest-giver to claim the gold reward, THAT is a complete quest-cycle. ^^ (Edit: And wouldn't have taken long at all to implement.)
Huge gold-star for the Commondore 64-like intro screen!