As for puzzles -- those require more work, but at the very least, you could have a press 'h' for hint
Excuse me to be a bit harsh :
This is imho nothing but whining of someone who has never played good adventure games, e.g. by LucasArts.
If you play adventure games, then you'll definitively learn how to solve puzzles - in this respect adventure game players have a clear advantage over "normal" RPG players.
I recommend for example the adventure game called "Keepsake", which has a hint function built in.
The LucasArts adventure games have great quality, no "pixel hunting", and are usually more than logical (compared to recent examples).
You could try for example "Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis" - a true and great classic of this genre !
What you also could try is playing the RPG called "Drakensang". It is much, much, much more friendly to casual gamers, and have several riddles, too. I'd prefer Drakensdang 2, personally, which is scheduled for a boxed release in the North American territory by ValuSoft (daughter company of THQ) in September, if I remember correctly.
I think you should really try it it - but it puts the ROLE in front of everything, NOT the fighting, looting or whatever !
If you are lokking for a combat-heavy "hack & slay" game, then you'll be disappointed with Drakensang 2 (Drakensang 1 has a bi more of it in it, by the way).
And about Rhoda : I'd liked her to have *lot* of more "screen time" after she had been found ... My ideal is still the bantering between two of the main protagonists of the Shakespearean comedy "Much Ado About Nothing", as i see it on cinema as made/directed by Kenneth Brannagh ...
