WOW! What you have so far is really really impressive. Obviously it's a very empty engine and there's not much to do but the graphics are very very charming. I love the simplicity of the main character and the town/level was extremely luscious. The NPA elements are extremely well done also. I'm hoping that the HUD is a temporary placeholder though because the quality of the rest of the graphics is far far beyond it. Anyway good luck programming the battle engine, i know that's a beast for any RPG, I hope you can think of a fairly original concept for it and get this game finished. Hopefully some more experienced pixel artists snoop around you game for a few minutes and can give you some crits on the artwork. Stick with it.