>no difficulty modifier for time passing
For some reason this fucked with me so much. The time passes just a bit too quickly while on a crusade. On the other hand, using the accessibility option to freeze it entirely just feels like cheating.

I liked the main hard difficulty adjusting the way the enemies move and I think maybe spawn, making the combat faster like that is just the edge it needed to remain exiting though. The weapons and spells feel quite good and satisfying to use.

But yeah MGS Peace Walker was a lot more fun as a similarly structured base/follower collection game.
Boy do I like the lamb game for its audiovisuals though.