Nice little game with some drawbacks.
And you start with the main one - Windthrow. It's the default 2nd spell and it's useless, whole game is beatable without it. And if you chose to use it, some monsters have immunity to it. I'm a fan of variety and "cosmetic" skills, just not when they are default. You could forget it and use other skills, but you're still going to be reminded about it every level up.
Lightning spell is almost as useless. Its slow recovery defeats the purpose to use it against monsters. Only good to take out the horses on its power scale up, but they are easy with the other two spells.
There's not enough Dex in the game to make use of the spells lvl upgrade. Post-attack recovery makes it always too slow to cast.
After max HP upgrades the life scale resets its length on every new floor.
I like the monsters design. They are quick and fun. And I like that there's friendly fire. Although it can steal your secret 3rd medal.