First, a warning to anyone who does get this game: Watch your stat numbers. On more than one occasion, I have noted that they will seemingly drop for no reason. If one invests the starting stat points before the first battle of the game, they seem to disappear immediately after that battle. This is the most common time I have observed this, but I have seen it at other times as well.

This game is horribly unbalanced to a great degree of luck. _If_ a playthrough has a decent balance of materials to continue upgrading equipment, only then can a player make real progress. The combat system is otherwise horribly flawed so that only three or four wolves in a row will automatically be the end. There is no good way to heal unless, again, one is sufficiently lucky to find that the generated map happens to include large numbers of herbs.

I love a challenging game. This game is not challenging. It is pointlessly turned toward 'luck of the draw' so that skill and analysis and careful planning for expenditures of valuable resources mean nothing.

The 'Mood' mechanic is hopelessly broken. For each rare event that increases the character's mood, there are twenty others that drop it near to nothing. Rest barely improves mood or health, and that is assuming the player opts to rest at all - because those rebels are always right behind.

I want to be challenged in a game, not held hostage to the whims of the random number generator that decides if I will happen to find sufficient wood to improve a weapon. Balancing the use of limited wood and forcing me to make a difficult choice is fun; having a useless weapon against the alpha wolf after four regular wolves have already taken my health down to naught and I have no method by which to heal myself is absurd.

I strongly recommend passing on this one.