Needs simple changes to become great
1. Too much grinding. If you enjoy grinding so much, add difficulty levels.
2. Make Attacks and Abilities hotkeys (or better yet, allow the user to hotkey them)
3. Don't start us off with a pet. It not only makes me not want to hunt pets (because I wouldn't be leveling my gifted starter pet, MC Cutiepi), but it also makes me have to restart every time my pet dies, instead of having a rotating stable as you intended.
4. Potions are ridiculously expensive. I beat the game without ever buying a potion, but I wish I could have afforded one. Ever play a Final Fantasy game? It's the number one selling console RPG franchise of all time. Their potions are dirt cheap. Just saying...
5. More Quests! But more importantly, better rewards. You can make equipment pricey so long as you reward us with more equipment for completing quests. It also creates a drive to fight the more powerful enemies in an area right away.
6. More plot. Doesn't need to be much. Maybe a short cut scene after clearing each area.
7. Icing on the cake would be to allow us to increase stats of our choice upon leveling. You know: stat points.
Great submission, I look forward to more!