[cma]

> I felt frustrated that I was not clearly shown where level appropriate content was.

The map indicates the main path with glowy little directional markers all along it. Usually areas around the appropriate section of the main path are level appropriate, but there is much more to explore.

[oneoff786]

Yeah I’m gonna hard disagree there. The lines, and even the first NPC you meet, immediately lead you to storm veil castle which is a total trap. Margit is a very strong first boss, with unblockable chip damage and some fairly long and difficult to dodge combos. Heck he’s probably one of the hardest fights mechanically. The slow swings of the final boss are so much easier to avoid. If you follow the lines you will not get any flask upgrades either. And if you don’t go that way initially you could easily find yourself discovering another “main path” instead first.

Imo it was really just the one time tax of getting your flasks and weapon upgrades. The initial scaling of things was just… really bad. Weapon upgrades are too good for something that’s so uncontrolled game progression wise. Flasks get way too powerful very quickly, filling up more than your entire health bar with just one of many many charges. Health starts too low but then scales up stupidly fast.