For having only spent a few hours on the background image, I think it turned out very well. It used to take me days to make those, and they weren't quite as good.
My goal was to have the demo released by the end of the year, and I am definitely on schedule for that.
Dude, you have no idea how much it means to hear that. I'd be hard-pressed to think of a response I'd rather get than "This reminds me of Chrono Trigger."