LEAPFROG'S PROFILE

It's a little rough when you bite off more than you can chew and can't run away, but I didn't have too many problems overall. I did find myself having to return to the inn every couple of fights, until I wised up and bought a bunch of fruit. By the way, oranges don't seem to come up in the "field" items tab; I had to go to "battle" to use those. The other fruits were fine.

My biggest issue was with the optional boss (the hard one). I was at the point where I was ready to finish the game and he was wiping the floor with me. Terence was too slow to heal.

For the sake of longevity, it's usually good to have optional content that you can work towards, but in such a small game I think the idea of grinding for stat ups when you've run out of all other content is unpalatable, even if it's a fairly brief grind. I didn't fancy it, so I left the game incomplete (and the entrance to the final area rubbed my nose in it).

I think being able to willingly initiate encounters after you've run out of battles in the dungeons would make the grind more tolerable. As it is, you have to wander around a very small area waiting for something to attack you.

As far as the optional boss goes, it's possible that I was just unaware of some special strategy, but it didn't really seem like there was a whole lot else I could have done.