When someone says that this game is awful I feel really sorry that this person can't enjoy the game. Yeah I felt that game is a bit tough when I was level 2. I have to come out clean and tell you that I cheated and gave myself 10.000 gold. BUT, I've only spent 2K and I wiped the whole starting arean around the village, did every side quest and ended up with enough potions and food to regenerate my mana and health.
I didn't spend a single cent on any potion. I got them all from opening the chests and breaking destructible buckets and boxes.
FOOD and DRINKS regenerate your mana and health BTW. But if you just follow the main story line - yeah you're looking into some face beating against the wall. Not gonna be as easy to complete the main story line without doing side quests. This is RPG, its not a linear game like Force Unleashed 2 where you just whack your lightsaber around and go from level to level. RPGs need to be explored not rushed through the main story line.
Just my 2c.
I've been playing computer RPG's since they first came out for 8 bit systems (C64, Atari 800). I know how to "complete" the story and do every side quest. In all of the starting area destroying every breakable I found and exploring every nook and cranny and ever side quest the number of healing potions and mana potions were no where close to enough to support what was needed. And the fight a group of monsters and then wait 10 minutes for health and mana to be restored was really really wasting time.
If you take away the mechanics or the game it's pretty damn good...nice graphics, nice environments, some pretty good story devices....but the combat and mechanixs are brutally unbalanced and the rewards are not on par with the difficulty. I don't expect it to be easy by any means, just fair..and this game is not.
