This game just made me want to beat the screen. You are set with the task of building a town, and hiring adventurers to fight for you. They come in classes of fighter, ranger, and mage. So you hire a few adventurers and send them off to fight for you, if you can find them. I hired adventures, and could not find them! I was expecting them to come out of the building that I had just built as instructed by the tutorial, but they actually appear out of the woods way off the screen south of the town. So after I finally located my adventurers, I sent them off into battle. That's when the problems started. Every time I killed a monster it seemed my adventurers gained a level. Each time they gain a level they have more wants. So reaching the first level my fighters demanded better armor, as did my ranger and mage. Instead of having one armor building, you must build separate buildings for fighter armor, ranger armor, and mage armor (which I doubt you will have money for). So your adventurers walk all the way back from the battlefield (slow as molasses), to get their new armor. Then they walk all the way back where you told them to fight. Next thing that they kill they gain another level, and they demand better weapons. So you then again have to build separate buildings for fighter weapons, ranger weapons, and mage weapons (which again you won't be able to afford). And again your adventurers will have to walk all the way back to town for these new supplies. Keep in mind if you don't fill these demands your adventurers will dessert you, which was happening right and left to me. It is almost impossible to have enough money to keep up with the demands that your adventurers are making. It is a vicious cycle between trying to get enough money by fighting monsters to fill your adventurer’s needs, but then they gain levels and just demand more stuff. So between my adventurers constant demands that I couldn't meet, and then their need to spend 80% of the game walking back to town to get things, this game was infuriating at best. Please play the demo before buying this game, and make sure you can deal with this tiresome gameplay.
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