Being a math guy, I enjoy this game very much. 2 updates ago (give or take), you start playing and there is no way to win some of the castles. You start off with a 20 point character, and even if you are able to defeat all the lower point characters, you are still several points lower than the last character. The only way to advance is to watch an ad and hope to revive your character to continue the fight. However, this only helps sometimes because you still arent strong enough to defeat the enemy even after a second attack. (This happens in the maze levels). Additionally, you go up against one star battles till you can take on two star battles. This helps you level up enough to go up against the three star boss level. However again though, you only get a single two star battle to build up your character. After that battle, you must build up solely on single star battles. Doing so takes about 30,000 battles to approach a number significant enough to possibly go up against the boss level. So the two star battles need to be corrected, and the unbeatable levels need adjustment. Despite these needed adjustments, the game itself is fun to play, and the powerup spells also add a lot of appeal.

The latest update fixed quite a few issues and the game is much more playable now! Although “The World has opened” made me think there would be something to do there; but, when you go to the world tab - while it is no longer blacked out and ‘coming soon’ - there is nothing to do there. Nothing happens when clicking around the map, so I’m not sure what is supposed to happen there.I also have one suggestion to offer a better user experience during gameplay: since the abilities we get are random chance (even if you watch all the ads and use jewels the ability/upgrade you actually want as a choice may not appear) - and I get that may be intentional to make it more challenging - but it would be nice if players were able to employ a bit of strategy by either being able to choose the order the abilities are used or even manually activate them in any chosen order by pressing the ability icon; this could even be made into a choice for the players for ‘auto’ or ‘manual’ battle styles.

I actually got as far as level 5-2. Due to the holiday event, I was able to upgrade my guy to 88%. On the previous castle, that meant I started with 25 (25 “whats” - I don’t know). On level 5, I am suddenly back down to 20. And the the very first opponent is some sort of elf who is also 20. I thought a tie was supposed to go to me, but apparently here I lose the tie and can’t even start the castle without a respawn. I suppose I’m supposed to “equip” differently. But how? There is a suggestion that fire, ice, and the other 2 are all + (which is great, because I’ve got tons of fire) but that weapons are - (minus). So, am I supposed to go in weaponless? How do I remove my weapon. I can swap weapons, but I don’t see “unequip” anywhere. Or is it literally designed game play that you must do a mandatory respawn just to start the level? That’s not a game. That’s just silly. Edit: Ok, so I respawn. Now I’ve got 40 and the 2nd Elf has 30. No problem. Except, wait! Apparently 40 doesn’t beat 30 when it’s Elves. Am I supposed to literally try each of the HUNDREDS of possible equipping permutations available in hope (but no guarantee) that one of them will beat an Elf? What’s the point of all these dozens and dozens of moving parts if there is no way to know how they work and what to do with them? Developers, give us a clue, and you might have something here. Otherwise it’s just no fun.

This game has a lot of potential to become a 5 star game but it has a few flaws. The first issue is with the new update. The endless maze becomes so much harder and it’s likely impossible to get to the 10th stage. Before the update it was much easier and smoother to go through. The issue with this is if the stage is changing constantly then why have energy in the first place? It kind of makes it obsolete if you have to be going back and forge constantly just to pass the stage. My main goal for this game was to upgrade my armor from what I got with the endless maze and then have decent armor and weapons to defeat the lava castle. The reason I needed this for the lava castle is because the lava castle only relies on luck. Now this issue is less of a worry because it’s not impossible to beat but what is impossible is getting to at least stage 3 of the endless maze.