Thank you for your feedback. I pretty much lost focus on my original plan about a week in and it just got bloated. I will take your feedback for future projects.
Thanks, I will definitely learn from my mistakes in my second attempt at making a game. Getting someone to test play it before submitting will be first on the list...
A bugfix for the missing battler at the beginning is provided in the quick bugfix dev post. However, the original download should still be playable with the missing battler.