Unbalanced, repetitive and ridiculously hard
The fact that you can only bring two hirelings with you and that ~enemies have more health than you or your hirelings~ is ridiculously stupid, and makes this game almost impossible to beat at later levels. There's no way you can get past a "hard" difficulty stage without dying several times; hell you'll be lucky if you even get past ANY "hard" stages. Enemies seem to stagger only half the time in these stages, swarm you from both sides, kill hirelings in a matter of seconds (100+ gold wasted just like that), and you end up dying a few seconds later. Since there's no way to defend in these situations (because enemy kicks/attacks go through your defense), you just basically wait for your inevitable death (NO YOU CANNOT JUMP OVER THEM, the moment you try to jump and get hit, the animation resets). Also, you can only attack one enemy at a time even though they're completely stacked together, HOW STUPID IS THAT? How in the world can you possibly defeat anything with 3-4 spears/swords swinging at you causing you to flinch every single time?
Conclusion: game is way too easy in the beginning (sometimes you end level with perfect health), and WAY too hard near the end. DON'T EVEN BOTHER TRYING ANY "hard" difficulty stages; they're almost impossible to beat.
Suggestions:
- Make different difficulty settings?
- Make different weapons?
- Allow rare health potions to drop?
- Special storyline henchmen should be able to heal after each level, kind of obvious?
- Increase the amount of henchmen you can get and also increase the cost?
- Make henchmen LESS STUPID~ mages should attack ranged attackers, this can't get more obvious~ mages following a group of swordsmen around and getting killed in two seconds without you being able to stop it is just stupid
- Make different input methods for different moves instead of waiting for them to randomly happen!!!
- Make the cheat menu available in the beginning ffs, who needs it after you beat all four episodes? You're probably a gaming champion after you beat all four anyways
Overall it was fun in the beginning, but got tedious in the end that you just simply can't beat it.