OMEGAHUNTER'S PROFILE

You're sort of right about the battles being easy. Most enemies were easily dispatched just by using Attack and Critical. However, I died in my very first battle against two rats. Why? I didn't know I was supposed to equip my weapons and the lamb skin armor. In fact, I didn't even know the skins were armors at first. At that segment of the game, before allowing the player to move on, bring up some dialogue implying you should equip everything. For example, a scene like this:

Merton: There are lots of wild beasts in this forest. We cannot evade them any longer...
Maria: I suppose we'll have to use our weapons then...
Merton: Right. We should Equip our weapons now before moving on, lest we find ourselves fighting creatures in hand to hand combat. Maria, are you wearing your lamb skins?
Maria: Oh, right, I don't want to ruin my outfit! We should put those on as well!

Really simple example that would fit in perfectly with the pacing of the game up until that point, and gives the player a clue that they should equip their gear. If you're extremely unlucky, it looks like it may even be possible to get jumped by rats before you even walk the few steps to the save post. When there's the slight possibility for a random encounter to screw you that badly, you should make it a bit more obvious to equip the player's weapons and such.

I did enjoy the demo though. I didn't get to the boss yet, I just entered the city and looked around. Not entirely sure what I'm supposed to do next, but I'll probably mess around with it a bit more later. One more minor complaint is that Maria seemed to be getting completely destroyed by enemies even with the armor equipped. Maybe I should have used the defend option more often, I'm not sure. Not a huge problem since she's the mage, but it was still annoying having her get destroyed by simple enemies like rats in the very first area with battles.