I own number 2 in this series, and I can't for the life of me understand how this abysmal PoS became a hit in Germany. It's like playing a tabletop RPG, where a completely unhinged GM really wants to kill the party. All the time. The stuff that fans of the series call "complexity" is just really poor game ballance. You find yourself churning against impossible odds, removing anything that is even remotely fun in a CRPG. Random encounters are a mess, rewards are ridiculous, and combat repetitive. Avoid, unless you're a terminal masochist.
