Yeah, what Mr 2Handing says: I also had that "argh!" experience, in particular once I'd got to the swamps but with a couple of very awkward encounters later on too, and the answer is very much that "if you get pwned, do other stuff and try again later". Memories of playing The Witcher in particular, where the number of times I died trying to tackle the boss at the end of the first chapter made me almost throw my PC out the window. But as it was, I'd only done about half the stuff in that area and I would've probably been more irate to have progressed beyond it only to realise I'd locked myself out of a lot of gameplay! Which is also relevant to DOS2.
