I honestly don't get how people can claim this is a good game. I stand by my original review that the system is flawed to be against the user, especially free ones.
I restarted from the beginning and in ONE day, after grinding to level 27 using all the gems to recharge the energy, I'm STILL not able to 3 star a mission that has a recommended level 10 requirement. In any other game I would be flooring the CPU like it was nothing. ALL of these characters are gimped, and upgrading them is a hassle because they give you very little upgrade gems for dupe summons.
It's a shame that the devs put all the work into the characters and story, only to completely kill it with this horrible gameplay mechanic.