Warning: terrible gameplay ahead. There are pauses and cuts, because I go offscreen to write down my thoughts.

This is my 2nd time playing, but it doesn't feel any easier. I think this game would be great if I watched a Youtuber play it for an hour before trying myself.

There's severe lack of "numbers go up" feeling, even though numbers suppousedly go up constantly.

For example, heroes: as I'm writing this I'm not sure if heroes have levels. Just checked, and they do. This seems like an important part of the game, but it's very easy to miss. Do they gain stats, skills or something? Does it matter?

Another example: raid gets finished. What did I gain? No idea, I know I got some cash and items, but that information is gone the moment raid is completed. It would be nice to see what we got, or how many enemies we killed, how much exp we got.

There are tons of inconvinences that add unnecessary complexity.
For example crafting: Guide window has better crafting than dedicated Crafting window. Big icons with names, which I can select and then press a button to craft them. Even so, it still doesn't display how many resources I have, and how many items I can craft. Also item icons look like buttons. This is fine in Guide because items are actually recipe buttons. But below, items in 'NEEDS' also look like buttons, meanwhile the actual button for crafting doesn't look like it's usable at first glance.

I feel the game underneath is great. I love the aesthetic and the idea, but I don't get how to play it. Later in the gameplay I just send raids without any thoughts, because I assume you can't go wrong with that.

At the end doing that quest with boss at The Coast felt, like the only time in the game where I understood what I'm doing, because it was obvious what I need to do:

• Boss is strong
• Send all part members, give them best items to maximize victory chance
• If I lose I need better items (and level but I didn't know it existed at the time)

To be clear, I'm not saying the game is too complex and to dumb it down. I just have this feeling like I don't get enough info to truly get what's going on and make informed decisions. Like the "YOU DID GOOD / BAD" feedback is hidden behind million clicks and hover over tooltips.