I find myself HAVING to exp up my team close to the starting location so that I can level them up in the beginning or having to use apples ever round to heal my entire team which can cost a lot of gold since you only make 11-14 in the early fights.
3 lives for each monster .... completely ridiculous for an already hard game.
Beginning is just really hard it should have some progression but instead you just get pummeled if you don't know what you're doing.
Brute Wars 1: 5/5
Brute Wars 2: 3/5