Smithing chance / fail rate ruins the game
Despite the lack of tutorial, the game would be 5 stars but the fail chance for smithing makes the game miserable. I’ll explain: In order to progress you must obtain weapons and various smithing materials to upgrade weapons. Good weapons and smithing materials are hard to come by and are very expensive to buy from the blacksmith. Smithing costs a lot of gold, especially late game. So, you must grind and grind to be able to upgrade at the blacksmith but there is only a small chance for the upgrade to work. The chance decreases after each upgrade. I loved this game at first but to spend so much time for just a fraction of a chance to upgrade left me disheartened and my excitement to play dropped to the point that I just stopped playing. I don’t think the devs look here for feedback but if this flawed system is ever fixed, I’ll revise my review to 5 stars because the mechanics are unique and fun.
