I just finished the game (it came out two days ago), and the second half of the game is really disappointing.
The randomness of characters and stat growth, as well as randomness of items, is bizarre.
You level your character but you can also train specific stats....which is really odd. Like if you don’t train stars, you characters will struggle to complete the second tier (recommended levels 5-24) at level 15. If you level stats instead, you can have level 25s beating the 3rd-tier stages (recommended levels 24-50).
Gear makes sense at the start, when warrior weapons/armor are made in Smithy, wizard gear is made in Magic Shop, etc. At the end, you’ve got weird guns and orbs in the smithy, and everything is so random that you basically just build a bunch of stuff and hope it makes you character more effective.
Also the gameplay is just grindy: Send your heroes off. When they finish send them again. Do this for an hour or so. Craft gear with all the stuff they gathered. Upgrade their gear and sell the rest. Use the excess gold to level/train heroes. Repeat until the game is over. Finish the game in 2 days, having spent most of the time doing something else entirely and just clicking “replay” each time they finish a dungeon.
This is the husk of a good game, but man, it’s like this wasn’t even play tested.