I dumped about 2 hours of game time into this and I'll have to say I'm very impressed with the game and the story. It's easy to follow, and the dungeons are challenging yet not tedious. The difficulty scaling as you progress in the areas feels natural and I absolutely love the Rune (materia) style magic that evolves as you gain experience. I played a simlar game that I purchased on steam and that game froze quite a lot. I didn't experience any freezing on this game.
I know it's a demo I won't critique too hard, one thing I noticed was when purchasing the accessories on for the main character I couldn't equip it through the shop upon purchase. I was able to equip it in the menu so no big deal on that. The other thing I noticed was that it showed only one out of the two accessories that you can have equipped. Again this is a demo so I'm sure that was already polished up.
The other thing I ran into was near the end before you get the a new way to transport. (Don't wanna give away any spoilers) The main character's custom name switched back to default as the key item was exchanged for the reward and remained through the end of Chapter 1.
Again these were very minor things and overall the story was solid. I was able to connect with the main character. I absolutely loved seeing the character models in the status window, that added a really nice touch to the immersion. It was a great world it was very well constructed. And it scratched my retro game itch big time with the music and battle/boss scores.
I hope to see this game get finished. I donated because I'm sure that took a lot of time and effort to build and put together. Great work MurdockBerk, you made a really solid game.