I just tried it out, but couldn't get past the first boss. (I should note I'm not super good at these)
I picked Yvellin, because I had read the witch was too hard, but even as the knight dying was often. (Poison and Bleeding states contributed greatly to that.) It took quite a long time for me to find money to buy something, same with AP.
I often resetted right away if the first event was negative (and it was 60% of the time). It felt like at the beginning there were so many negative events, that I stopped trying at some points. I bought an item that had a 50% chance of curing of some (all) states. It of course didn't work and I wasted pretty much 50% of my money on it. Considering you can't enter a fight without getting poisoned or wounded, I would suggest to leave the chance out of it and to let me cure these.
Anyway that said, I really liked the artwork you did for this. And the concept is super cool too. :)