This game stinks. I tried to give it a fair shake, but there's just so much wrong with it. From the moment you try to fullscreen the game and notice the lack of scaling, you know you're in for a ride.
There are two tutorial missions, but neither really explains what's going on with the stance system, and there's no way to tell what the effects of pets are once they've been purchased and deployed. The balancing is awful and seems to be based around the player having a full grasp of systems they've made no effort to convey.
When you first get annihilated by a challenge while doing everything correctly, you assume that it's balanced around shop upgrades, but no, the upgrades aren't really upgrades, they just unlock new stuff - stuff you can't use in challenges. The only thing I can think of is that you're expected to purchase boosters or something...boosters that don't exist in this version of the game.
The art's cute, but that's about all that the game's got going for it. You unlock new classes that are just reskins of old ones with a different set of stats. That's all "classes" really amount to - hidden stats you have little to no control over and an ultimate ability that doubles as the only active skill they have. What's more, the ultimates (called "specials") aren't even unique to each class. The Paladin's heal is the same as the Priest's, just weaker.
There's two stats in charge of what loot you can get: Charisma, which influences the Gnome's random drops, and Luck, which influences the drop rate of monsters. Why they saw fit to split the precious single point you get to allocate each level-up between two different stats that affect drop rate, neither of which affect your combat effectiveness, I have no clue, but they don't appear to stack or interact in any way. No, you don't get to see how much Charisma you have, and for some reason your drop rate goes down when a party member is dead, but springs right back up so long as they're conscious.
If you like having to pay for MiniClip games, have at it, but not even Cheat Engine could make this fun for me.
