Hero Generations

HowLongToBeat.com says that Hero Generation is a game for just several hours of gameplay, from beginning to end. Having that in mind, I pretty much enjoyed the game first, especially its innovative and simple though captivating mechanics. I rushed forward from one game "world" to another (there is a total six of them), trying to reach the final boss and beat the game as fast as possible (I don't mean any "speedrun" here, just wanted to see the end titles in a reasonable amount of gameplay hours). And then came the disappointment. I killed the final boss within a lifetime of 15 "hero generations", in full accordance with the in-game quest requirements, but then the gameplay... just didn't stop. It went on and on, encouraging me to keep playing and breeding heroes "ad infinitum". "Hero Generations" turned out to be endless, and as such it granted me no feeling of satisfaction for reaching its final point. After reading some reviews, I realised that "Hero Genrations" is more of a management game, so instead of rushing forward crushing monsters, I should have built and combined numerous structures (for what purpose?) and repeating the same tasks over and over again. All this seemed totally justified when I was having in mind that it will take me just a couple of hours to finish the games, but stopped making any sense after I understood that the game is intended for much longer (ideally - endless) playing periods. "Maybe I did something wrong and had not finished the main quest", thought I, hitting the "New game" button time and another, but the result remained the same. Thus, "Hero Generations" is a POINTLESS game where one should spend many-many hours after completing the main quest... doing a lot of things for no particular reason. For me, it was a bummer: I like completing projects, even if the "project" is just beating an indie game in one evening, and I think that turning an innovative game into an endless process for no particular story-related reason is outrageous.