well this just oozes style, god damn. the channel thing is really interesting (both as theming and as a battle mechanic) and while the level of control here is fairly coarse, i imagine in a larger game there would be more influence over it
unfortunately i got stuck in a loop where their healer could heal an insane amount of damage every turn, and meanwhile my alleged 30% chance to hypnotize him failed seven times in a row, which is about where i gave up. but this feels like a numbers-tweaking kinda thing