Above all, even the systems itself, I love the attack animations of all the characters. The apprentices, the soldier promotion attack(whose critical looked just a bit gaudy right before the actual crit hit), the look of those soldiers sprites on the map, it makes it look like the professional games that went over and beyond. the later gba FEs basically build on the EXACT same graphics as the previous ones, but you actually did them better.
The drifter attack animation looks considerably amateurish, even for a lower ranking class.
Maybe you've got some stat balancing to do and other misc stuff; I'm sure you know all the stuff still to be done.
Awesome job that it ain't trashed.