Interesting reading this thread and the problems people seem to have with the game. I've lost count of the number of times I've played this game, certainly over 30, just because I enjoy it so much. I struggled the first few times I played but now it's become somewhat routine to blast my way all the way through the game in a very short time. It's all a matter of learning what you need to do and when. A common mistake is to try to complete each quest too quickly, none are time critical. Build up on potions and learn when to use them, save before critical events then go back and try again if you fail. I'm looking forward to some tougher challenges and adversaries in future updates. Games where you are forced to learn, rather than being led through, are much more enjoyable in my opinion. Only one real problem has cropped up for me and that is that the animations don't work for me no matter what the setting so I disable them. Maybe my desktop just isn't powerful enough, having said that, this is the only game where that is a problem.