BULMABRIEFS144'S PROFILE

I can help you with this. One, they aren't overpowered so much as there is an elemental type for each enemy AND each character. That is, the main character is immune to fire (as that flaming thing) and absorbs fire (in female form). Therefore, if you want to train in female form, try to match up with a fire magic enemy. A good choice is either goblins or cerberus (hiding in a pot in the first inn). Also, the weapon/armour progression kinda extreme, and later equips may have you finding most of the too hard enemies way too easy. Second, for the "don't know the hell to be doing" to clear the first area, goto the mushroom and get struck by lightning, search the chests for keys, find the fire crest in the extended part of the grass (the lady to the right gives you a weird hint to its screen location as WEST), then go down and the trees should "burn" when you touch them, touch the fountain to open a cutscene, then notice the lone tree that didn't shed leaves when that earlier thunder struck, then grab the water drop from the fancy pedestal, and finally use it on the fire to the west. From there you can explore towns, but most of the puzzles in this game are roughly like this.

I've gotten it to work (sometimes) on my sister's windows vista, but it has to have the rpgss repeatedly reinstalled, since every now and then vista decides to reject it. Still, it is designed for XP. Bear in mind the whole thing is compressed as an exe (huge game otherwise, though more because of mp3s and graphics than story length), so it isn't a simple unzip and play thing.

It seems to have a rather sharp battle curve, where (with the right weapons) battles suddenly go from very hard (the first monsters will KILL you in one hit) to very easy. Not sure how to fix this, but I managed to at least make the later enemies tough enough to withstand a few hits from your best weapon at the higher levels. It takes 5-20 hours I'd say (5 if you know what you're doing, 20 if you don't since the high hp of some bosses, means very long battles, not to mention certain plot points may not be completely obvious).

Oh, and it is NOT a demo. I worked on it months-years in advance but had trouble posting until I found this site.