I like this game a lot. Yeah it's hard, but definitely not Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts hard. Despite glitches and a seemingly undefinable goal, you can play this game from start to finish, unlike Dark Seed. My only beef with it, is that it lacked a way of sorting the characters by stats or equipped item. In the later part of the game I had about 58 survivors, and I just didn't care to go through each one to figure out the best way to equip them.
But enough about that. The game has good art, the music and sfx do not diminish gameplay and the raid cut scenes made me just a tiny bit nostalgic of Master of Orion. Plus, it sticks with what the genre is about and it does it well enough.
If you want to beat the game, just recruit as many losers as possible. They'll probably all starve to death under your rule, unless of course you send them out into the wasteland (where they probably would have died anyway) to find food. Five tips for beating this game:
1. Don't send anyone out there with anything more than a bat and a banana hat.
2. Keep a few extras in the background to work in the kitchen, or fight on the lines. Only people that stay at home base get good weapons.
3. Traps are a waste of time and money.
4. The game gets harder day by day, and whenever more of the map is revealed, so put away your compass.
5. Drink Yoohoo.