Dint listen to that other review. You can do a LOT as a free player, you just need to not play stupidly - like not building up your resource buildings. The kingdom building is pretty good, fighting is somewhat RPGish and enjoyable, and the dungeons help you feel like youre going out and doing something besides collecting and strengthening your cards. My only gripe is the mini games you get from the buildings. Not only do you have the built-in fail-states (five chances to get wrong pairs in the Pairs card game and missing or hitting the back of the targets in the Maiden shooting range game), but they dump artificial fail-states that make it so that you could waste an entire play of the game by picking both bad cards at random which automatically ends your game, or hitting the bad cards in the rNge which takes away coins you just got. Theyre completely unneeded and should be removed from the mini games. The rest of the game is fun thiugh.
Acadian Bacon about Valkyrie Crusade, v3.4.3