As mentioned in so many other comments, what a shit game. Only did it for the badge, that took me over a week. In that time I never really got interested in playing, just glad to get to the badge. You may say that at level 5 the game has a lot more features and becomes way better.... well, maybe you should reconsider, cause people judge a game on the beginning. Glad I got the badge and this hell on earth is over.
Awesome game. Hard is quite tough, but certainly not undoable. Managed even to get 2x a timebonus :) Think 1 or 2 really hard ones in there, which i was unable to find (but when i saw it i was like, "omg how could i not see that")
what's wrong lately? you have to wait like half an hour for an badge to be assigned :(
Nevertheless a fun game, bit easy after you have all the upgrades.
Mayor badge can also be gotten on Challenging.
You can be lucky against the baron too, when he does his TickTock on himself.
I won once by that, now won against him rebuilding skill-tree which made me get hp back at certain times. Didnt go totally for the offensive way. He is quiet good to do then, dont choose only the powerfull skills and not able to defend/gain hp back yourself.