This review and 1-star rating is specific to the Tactician difficulty: I was hoping that the game would actually challenge me to be tactical and make smart/careful plays during encounters. Instead, it's pretty binary if you can beat an encounter or not. Because Tactician improves the enemy AI and also their stats (+30% HP, +2 on most rolls), a lot of encounters just really can't be beaten when you first get to them. The "solution" is to just go elsewhere and level up and come back when you're higher level (and ideally with better gear). Apparently at higher levels this evens out, but at levels 1-3 is really sucks, and the game just crawls.