I've been really enjoying the roleplaying aspects of the game. Navigating the different factions within the Overlord's empire is a compelling challenge, and while the range of options for dealing with a sitution are frequently pretty narrow (which helps create the feeling of being a minion, though a high-up one), it generally feels like the distinctions between those options are meaningful. I really want to continue this game. But...I am so sick of the combat. I'm playing on a low difficulty, which means I very rarely feel threatened - but it still takes ages for a combat to resolve. I would like to go up and be challenged, but I don't want it to take even longer. I also don't feel like I'm making many meaningful tactical choices, just matching attacks with a particular type of save to enemies that are bad at that save, and similar. To make it worse, there are loads of filler combats which don't need to be there to advance the story. So...I've stopped. Which sucks.
