I've never been so torn with a game.
This game tries so hard to make me want to love it. I so desperately want to love it back, but I just can't. The monsters are just too damn hard. At one point I only had around 340 hp or so and some of the monsters I ran in to have done 500+ damage. I'm only in chapter two and doing fetch quests for towns people and I'm getting my ass handed to me. So after leveling up a few times and I put everything into defence and hp. Then as I tried to do the mission again, two enemies did 250+ damage simultaneously and I'm dead again.
I've seen some people complain that taking away exp and gold makes it too hard, but I disagree. There need to be some punishment for dying instead of a game over. So it fine with me.
I'm sure I could just grind on weaker enemies until I'm strong enough to beat the tougher baddies, but I would rather just play another game. Mostly because I know once I push through and become strong enough to kill them, even more powerful ones are just around the corner. And I just don't have the patience for that. I guess I could also just run past the harder enemies and just try to finish the quests, but that`s no fun and I doubt that`s how the game was ment to be played.
The game is clearly well made by very talented people that know what they`re doing. It looks awesome and plays great (although there was one time when I somehow duplicated my sword, but that`s no biggie). And as you can tell by my score I liked the game. This could easily have been one of my favorite game in a long time. If the enemy difficulty curve had been smoother things would be different. But as it stands, the game is too frustrating for me to play.