I have come to expect nothing less of Brian James
This was slick. Kinda short, but cool. Two beefs, though: The animation was a little jerky and unnatural in spots (the friends waving to the main charater), and the voices were kind of muffled. Other than that, looks like a great start. I'm thinking this is going to turn out to be a standard SNES RPG storyline: boy in peaceful village goes out for a while, finds something that brings calamity on hometown (bonus points for killing of parents/gaurdians and/or partial responsiblity on the part of the boy) and then leaves, ashamed, only to find out he's some sort of "chosen one." I hope you find some variation of this to surprise us with.