In all honesty, I'm surprised I managed to get as far as I have, even though compared to some that's not very much. The main town is finished and the interior of two homes, but most of the events - the meat of the game - have yet to be scripted, although I already know what many of them are going to be. I've also got maybe 1/3 of the sprites and faces I need finished, but compared to the tiling and events that's a drop in the bucket.
However, it's given me what I really wanted and that's first-hand experience at getting something done in VX Ace. It's certainly similar to the older versions of RPG Maker but does plenty of things differently. I haven't found a way to invert tiles (cobble around grass instead of vice versa), for instance, and events are tracked by location rather than as a whole.