The story's writing is so horrible it borders on comical. It's a shame it surpassed comically bad and barreled into the state of really really awful.
I'd rather that the game had an auto-spam toggle like the ballistae on top of the keeps. Pressing 1,y,1,y,1,y,1,y,1,y,1,y,1,y,1,y,1,y is not as entertaining as you might think.