I've found all chapter 1 endings twice and started a few runs on chapter 2 so far, but it feels a bit unrewarding with memories in regards to bonus progress between the runs.
It feels like memories are supposed to be very strong, but aside from shadow assistant which is very useful, it feels like there's too many runs required before you can do useful stuff with memories.
I prefer to max or close to max bonus xp to faster gain memories, but it feels like i have to try and find the perfect strategy asap with too little room for exploration or reward for going wrong way.
I guess in a way, just knowing what some tiles leads to, but since we do have a persistent thing between runs(memories), it almost requires 5-10 runs before you can get even some meaningful amount of mana/power.
Some stuff could be fixed with balance, and i guess there's preferences too, but will there be other stuff, like fear, workers, minions etc buyable with memories, or will it continue to be a more expensive memory sink to eventually reach an helping amount of mana/power and let the progress/exploration itself the be main reward to clear the stages for future content?