I apologize about the enemy counter problem. It was only supposed to have you fight roughly 5 enemies. So originally should've only had you fight 2-3 battles. But despite my efforts to try to have it properly add them up. It would not always register the enemies, so for the sake of the progress I tried to lower the number as such so it wouldn't of had you fight no more than 4 battles. If your experience had you fight many more than that, then I'm sorry. It shouldn't have done that. And I'm sorry you didn't get a chance to get to the first town that really set the story for the main character who was the hero reincarnated. Truthfully, the battles after a certain number was killed was to engage a cutscene which would've had an orb appear on the gateway to the pre-boss.
The parallax was just me trying out different features in the game engine as I was learning it. It was supposed to be water, but I'm by no means an artist. Which is why moving forward with the project, once I have completed the story line, I intended to go back and revamp all the terrain and artwork to polish it off.