@randomphantom there are two main "strategies":
- stay above 50% so enemies increase your power. then use the power to cast skills. - stay below 50% so enemies lower your power. then shoot them just enough to not go critically low.
- On stage2, I imagined people would go offensive attacking everyone and burning trees to waste power away. But they can also stay belo 50% to slowly but steadily kill all monsters.
- On stage3, I imagined people would need to attack first, go to 52% as ice, then just let mushrooms attack. That increases the power so you can cross the river.
- On stage4 you're also required to use monsters to power you up, so you can gather enough ice energy to cross the river.
- Stage5 is chaos and can do whatever you like, and so on.
Basically, if you need to kill a lot of monsters, stay below 50% is safer, because you don't know if you'll have places to cast skills. If you need to traverse the map, it may be required to go almost to 100%, so you have enough "charges" of skills to get where you want.
On the boss stage I tried to throw everything on it so you would need to use both strategies to get it done.
On the tutorial, yeah, I tried doing SOME fail-safing but I ended up giving that up. Failing is 'good' so people can understand the mechanics better until they get it right, haha!