This game is hard as fuck unless you use really cheap tactics against the AI's impaired abilities. It's hard, but not in a fun way. Here I'll give an example of what I mean:
So there is an ogre camp. Many ogres, normal ones, sub boss ones, and the boss one. Grind all the way through until at the ogre boss... Okay.
Normally on this grind through what I had to do was pull 1-3 ogres at a time. Fight them, wait around to recover, move forward a bit more repeat over and over.
Get to that ogre boss and they shut the door behind me and it's the ogre boss + several other ogres of various types all want to kill me.
So... Go in swinging for like 2 seconds to realize I do very little tiny barely noticeable sliver of health drops from this boss on each swing and like half a dozen ogres and the boss want me dead now and are beating the fuck out of me... Head on attack is suicide... So RUN AWAY! run run run run run... Oh shit the big ogre can run faster than me, but at least I am more agile or it's dumb... just don't die... run run run... Running circles around this small area I'm trapped in while this huge ogre is trying to hump my leg as I flee...
Wait for the ogres to lose interest from chasing... Pick the smaller ogres off 1 or 2 at a time and keeep running / recovering.
Go toe to toe with the big ogre again now that it isn't 10 on 1... And it hits like a freight train, and I hardly do any damage per swing. I feel like a smart toddler trying to fight a mentally retarded adult here... So run away again... and get it chasing and get it chasing and trick it into running into a wall I get between it and me. And stand on the other side of the wall using a ranged weapon that does even less damage almost not damage... tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap it's monumental health bar down as if I am trying to fill a bathtub with a shotglass... That's only the 2nd stage boss too it only gets harder from there.