The green exclamation point issue is fixed in my current build; I'll update the demo to fix that later this week. I want to monitor this thread a bit longer and make sure there aren't any other bugs reported.

-The XP curve is Ace's default curve. It does get kind of high, but the XP for later stages will adjust accordingly; the "acceptable" level range for Slither's cave is 6, and that's the same for the next story level, so I have a feeling you're a bit above that. The imagination xp is some convoluted formula I came up with that tends to be about half of a normal level.

-There is indeed a treasure finder.

-Yep, you can only hold ten of a consumable item. Resource management is something I wanted to be highlighted.

-If you go back to Smile, you'll notice that those prices have also inflated. It's more than just the Ants on a Log; every consumable item has gone up in price (though equipment and furniture is the same). Since consumable items are consistently useful (by being percentage-based instead of fixed), I couldn't leave them that cheap forever.

-For the boss, watching will either lead to a counter or a quake. Counter just lasts a single turn, so I don't think that's being canceled?

-I don't know why you sometimes can't transform at the beginning of battle! I'll look into that.

-Mental Clarity works the same as vitamins; there are only three curable status effects: sick, immunodeficiency, and sleep. I have a fourth one that shows up on the item, but that's something I overlooked.

Edit: Thanks, Sarge! I'm glad you liked it! I hope I can iron out the lag issue this week; I'm sure that was headache-inducing. Also, regarding Buck: the game is mostly the player interacting with the world like in the demo, but I think one of the failures of the demo in expressing the entirety of the game is that Buck and the rest of the family will have more scenes and become central to the plot pretty soon after the events of the demo. They don't constantly interact in the way that, say, would occur in a Tales game, but they do contribute in an essential way. The other failure of the demo is that the imagination system at this point in the game is pretty boring since you just start to unlock the level five skills around the end of the demo, but there's not much I can do about both of those issues.

-Nah, I'm going to keep the demo at its current length; you don't really start benefiting from the passives until mid-game, so I don't want to push it that far. You do benefit a lot from stat gains, so I'm hoping that's enough.

-Rad ghost has 30 agi, but his dance has first priority.

-The passives are indeed coded in at this point. For your own sanity, though, you shouldn't work to unlock them; your save file will very likely not be able to move over to the finished game.

-Transformation cooldown is a thing; it just wasn't supposed to persist between battles. I've fixed that bug in my version now.