The progress of the game helps with people learning to play it. Things will start off slow and easy letting the player learn the mechanics of the game and then kinda slowly picking up pace. The game is built with leveling mechanics. When you start off things will be easier for you but as you level things will start to become harder and that nice longbow you had won’t be able to kill that Giant.
The game doesn't do well with some of its bugs making the game hard at the start to pick back up or well to get caught back up to how the game should be. One of such is one where you can cheese the start of the game smacking on ally on the highest difficulty, making you level up. After that is done the player will be faced with harder people once they leave the start of the game.
Something that makes the game so fun is that challenge after the game has been completed and going back and finding things you didn't before. The graphics were really well for the time this game was out. The world isn't that difficult to learn and the story takes you from one side of the world to the other. But after learning the game it will become more difficult if the player does not keep up with the levels and armours of those they are fighting.
I would want to say if you enjoy open world RPGs this game would be a good one to pick up. Yeah the play through is a bit short if chosen to speedrun it. But even with the bugs and exploits in the game I would recommend this game to anyone. It was very fun to play going through most of the story and also skipping along with doing everything but it. The side quests are very fun but also some become very boring and repetitive.