This is a great game, and I'm going to give it 5/5. The gameplay is fun and doesn't get grindy, the only thing I'd like to see added is a way to use 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 to deploy.
To get the 3rd badge, start as the Far East, do a couple quests and kill rogues until you can take out Kozuke. Then, keep killing rogues, and take ~25 swordpeople (no ranged) and conquer Echigo. Do quests there (you can get up to 6000 gp from rogues), and get 2 scrolls of rage and 12 or so samurai. Then conquers every small villiage, buy a ton of scrolls and samarai, then stomp everyone else.
Why? Why? Level 13 is complete chance at the end, where there are 2 paths and no indication of where to go. All the controls don't work well, and double jump doesn't work either! Fix those things, add in a "r" for reset, and it would be a great game.
Oh wait, some levels are jsut speed runs, not puzzles at all. I think that this is more important than any clunkinesss of the controls. This game need serious re-working to be fun.
Come on people, there are totally red diamonds! See this picture:
http://www.jadeitejade.com/2011/03/the-moussaieff-red-diamond/
Vote this up to help show people they ARE really diamonds.
Great game, lots of fun, but both the pay to get levels thing and the time it takes when you reset the level is annoying. Make it instant, with a "show castle" button, and it would be a 5/5. As it is, 3/5.