Regarding vim-adventures, I just gave it a try for the first time and while it does seem quite fun it puts a massive amount of emphasis on h and l to move left and right (that's all you start with, and even though you unlock w, e and b soon enough you can't use them outside of text tiles).
I hardly ever use h and l. There's almost always a better and faster way to move around, be it w, e, b (and their uppercase variants) or f/t/F/T. I think the only time I ever use h and l is when I need to move inside a word (fairly rare), or when I want to do something like "remove the next 4 letters and insert something instead" in which case I'd do something like c4l. Also commands that operate on words or look for specific anchor characters compose much better for . or macros.