so I tried going with this and the battle mechanic still is still kind of ridiculous. especially since the first dungeon is constantly spawning more than one enemy at a time which pretty much results in death.
yeah, early game is kinda hard on the player, you have to basically run from multiple enemy battles and do the single battles, get enough shards, upgrade your skills, go against the witch boss and then you'll have two haremon by your side and that should make battles easier and more manageable.
the problem is that the whole game is made with the idea in mind that you'll have several haremon fighting at the same time, so the early encounters where you only have one haremon by your side are kinda busted.