Matthew,

Thanks for the comment! It's entirely probable that I dropped the game a bit too early, and I'm aware that I could just load up the last save and start from there but, ultimately I felt my progression in the game was halting, as if I was out of sync with the game. Sure, I'd save, but when I did end up dying I felt the PP loss would be too great or I had made too much progress since my last save or whatnot so I'd just save and start over, and hope I'd make more headway the next time.

Obviously I should have made that a bit more clear, and I have tweaked the article a tad to try and address that.

Nevertheless, your confidence in the game tempts me to give it another go. Maybe I'll be able to get in sync with it in a few months.