Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

It's a decent game but does have some relatively significant issues concerning game design and progression, I will update with something more in-depth when I actually finish it, but to note some things for potential buyers, here are a few glaring issues I noticed: - For a narrative focused game, it sure enjoys trolling the player by having quests with impossible persuasion checks, often requiring insanely high stats in a given attribute just to convince people. I've noted that some quests outright have parts of them fail because of this as well which is bizzare and infuriating. Combine this with equipment requirement mixed stats for no reason and you can quickly see how it becomes a problem if you want to actually play the game and not min-max stats just to pass these in any meaningful capacity. Why even include these checks if you intend to troll the player and have quests that have automatic-fail portions? Pointless. - There was some kind of XP "rebalance" update but it has honestly ruined a lot of the early game (Act 1-2) which suffer from significant difficulty spiking as you are not able to level up quick enough. Then I come to find out that you used to get a lot more XP from killing things yet the developers decided to nerf it without consideration for how it impacts an already completed/finished product (game). This becomes really apparent when certain equipment in the first portion of the game have VERY high stat requirements that you will NOT be able to get unless you abandon making a more well-rounded character and focus entirely on one or two aspects, often requiring cheesing fights. Because of this pointless nerfing, I had to scour the internet for a new grinding method for XP and thankfully found one. This decision was clearly poorly thought out and maybe was made when considering playing on the easiest difficulty - which, fine - but then you play on normal and the game just constantly feels slightly too difficult to be enjoyable, which I don't think is the "intended" experience at all. I have no idea why they would radically change how the game handles leveling like this without considering game difficulty, nor giving the player the option to reverse it. Since the modding scene for the game is.. well, terrible/nonexistant, there isn't any mod to fix it either. Your XP is nerfed, there is nothing you can do about it, and it clearly wasn't a good idea when considering that most people would play on normal or hard difficulty and not "baby's first RPG" difficulty. Did I mention that some of these nerfs don't even make logical sense? You will have miniboss tier enemies that will annihilate you during the night that give some pathetic handful of XP if you finally manage to bring one down. Really bad decision on the developer, highly questionable. Unironically, I think you would enjoy the game at this point playing on a harder difficulty, but intentionally cheating some of your stats in so you can at least have fun with it, since grinding for XP is really dumb on paper for a game like this.