I really want to like this game, but it's just so hard to advance. I'm stuck at Ayleen with no way to win. I gave up on strategy already against Vhidna and realized the game was very RNG based when I saw that she could basically 1 shot me on turn one if she did the three chain hit. And beating Noo just depends on if she spams the breast move that removes focus or not. Right now I'm trying to upgrade my gear from the store bought ones to the crafted ones, but I don't know where to get ingredients such as Crystal Essence and ruby. The ones that I could actually get, I managed to craft Engraved Succubi Essence and Nature Essence, but they dont seem to be of much use. Same with Minor Sky Crystal.
Honestly I'm just looking for any form of advice right now to advance or at least to be able to craft the gear.
Also, it doesn't help that the craftable items don't show up until you have an ingredient and even then, the items are written as ???? and you have to guess what it is. It's like you are just meant to advance without any direction.