"Oppressive and relentless atmosphere", huh? I can pinpoint the exact moment when I threw my hands in the air and completely and utterly checked out of the game. It's the ghost fight in the mines. Because, you know... with the guards - I get it, I suppose. Heavily mutated mindless humans driven by basic instincts. Fine. Even though I find their appearance to be more humorous than intimidating. Then - the "deep dwellers" or whatever. Ok. Primitives. Haven't come up with clothing (I guess it's really warm...

some obvious easily avoidable mistakes. Heard this game is brutal to newcomers

I finally, FINALLY made it to Le'garde now, he's dead, since, duh. I took a long ass time as I'm trying to avoid a walkthrough but have had to refer to one because I've gotten completely confused. But I just... I'm tired, man. I'm tired of enemies ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ my ♥♥♥♥ up in one attack, I'm tired of missing for no reason, I'm tired of not being able to escape because I'm in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ spot and can't run away quick enough on the overworld and then the enemy ♥♥♥♥♥ my ♥♥♥♥ up and I die there and have to go back to a ...

Anyone know what button to push? I can’t figure it out.

Nothing but artificial difficulty compounded with trash design. I really appreciate losing a bunch of progress to a bug the dev couldnt be bothered to correct. Great job, do us a favor and dont make any more of these trash games.