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So I agree that the game could be better designed so that a walkthrough shouldn't be so necessary--in particular, on a first playthrough. Playing the game again, and using a walkthrough to make sure all the content is found the second time around, seems fine to me.Yeah, I think a game should be designed in a way that it doesn't require a walkthrough except for those who want to make sure they've gotten all the content or those who really are in it just for the sex scenes. Tell you what, though, when I decided to start the Werewolf cult storyline I remember the cultists being real jerks last year when I first played through... it was a lot of fun to be level 27+ and mow them down. It was fun learning how to dodge the demoness when I faced her with zero chance of defeating her. That's another reason the game needs better internal structure. The enemy quests can get really unbalanced by doing them in many of the sequences you can choose as a player who's just playing the game.
With respect to balancing of quests, two things: 1) Chyos is constantly revisiting the balancing of the quests, so it's a work in progress and 2) you should notice that in the quest log, you can view the suggested level for each quest. So some quests say there is no minimum level suggested, while other ones will say lvl 8, lvl 15, lvl 20+, lvl 25+, etc. If you follow that, usually you won't have any problems. I didn't play the game for about eight months, then started a new playthrough and paid attention to suggested levels for each quest. Doing it that way, I never found a quest impossible, though sometimes challenging (Arianna cult quest, for example).
However, I do think that the quest log needs a lot of rework, as sometimes the next step is sometimes not accurate because there is actually something else that needs to be done first in another quest. If the quest log were better, then there would be less need to visit the walkthrough. So yes, there is room for improvement with both the walkthrough and the quest log.