I've been re-watching the Dragon Valley beta footage (mainly because I like how fitting are the Dragon Seed songs with the stage itself), it got me thinking and now I have a suggestion: how about give to the stage some enviromental sound effects?. For example, is the first act is located in the top of a hill/mountain, right? (not sure if these are hills/mountains, correct if I'm wrong...), how about playing a wind SFX loop in the background? or in the second act, you are playing in some sort of river/lake near the bottom of the hills/mountains, it should play a stream SFX loop.
Oh well, it's up to you Mr. Strife!.