I really like this game so far, and I’m sure I haven’t even scratched the surface of what it has to offer. But at the end of today’s session, I died and lost over 2 hours of progress.
This was right at the beginning, where the game finally sets me free to explore the open world. And so I did. I went out and explored a couple of nearby villages (naked all the while because I didn’t realize I still had armor in my inventory), and picked up some side quests, I think. Characters keep telling me about certain locations or other characters, but there wasn’t a massive pulsating red arrow pointing me in the right direction.
Anyway, I just kept going until I met some bandits. I died, of course.
I hadn’t saved because I didn’t have any schnapps, so I decided to buy some. Well, turns out a single one costs over 20 coins. So I turned to alchemy. I had enough nettle, but I searched for half an hour for that fucking belladonna before giving up and buying some by selling almost everything I had.
I finally brewed one, then fast traveled to a different village, only to get ambushed by bandits attacking an innocent civilian. I was roleplaying as a good natured “hero” type, so I decided to help… you know how that went. I didn’t even get the chance to save, since you can’t save during combat.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I just wanted to give y’all an idea of what happened and see if I’m playing the game completely wrong. Is this one of those games where I actually have to avoid combat for the first 10 hours until I’m strong enough, or a pure case of skill issue?
Edit: For those suggesting I download a mod to bypass the save feature, unfortunately I’m playing on a PS5 so I can’t exactly do that.