Actually Act 1 (if you mean Cyseal) is exactly the same...
It's not even close to as much. Yeah it's not exactly the easiest thing since you just run around looking for enemies your level, but Luculla is way way worse.
I'm not saying it takes away from the game, but it
is ridiculous enough to have thrown me for a while...
And let me tell you, but if you don't free the white witch as first thing, then NOTHING in act 2 and act3 makes any sense at all. Now that's not the bad thing, the bad thing is that you are not given proper purpose to free her. Instead that's told to you as a "thing you may wanna do at some point" like washing behind the ears, or picking up mushrooms.
I managed to get almost to level 13 before going to Hiberheim. I was certainly very, very confused.
