No, I actually meant to use the words I wrote, but I'm sorry if that's a pet peeve of yours. Yeah, it's an aberration too.
The game does save - sort of - in that you don't start the game from the very beginning if you die, but you do have to restart the most recent quest and re-do everything you'd previously accomplished. (Hence the "5 of 6 keys" example. You die after finding 5 of those 6, you're starting over at 0 of 6, and you have to pick up the first 5 again.)
Also, the quest system is severely limited - you get one quest at a time (all other quest givers disappear when you accept a single quest) so there's no way of completing multiple objectives at the same time. And many quests send you into the same places you just cleared in a previous quest, but everything's respawned so you have to re-do it all over again. Couple that with the lack of a decent save feature and you're forced to replay a lot of content repeatedly in a single playthrough - and you STILL only get maybe 7-8 hours out of the game.
Really, it has some potential, but in its current state it's nowhere near worth playing. This is another situation where the demo carefully masks the problems with the full game, so going by that brief experience isn't going to help. Just look at the Metacritic scores - 47 / 100 and 5.5 out of 10 aren't the hallmarks of a quality game.
The game does save - sort of - in that you don't start the game from the very beginning if you die, but you do have to restart the most recent quest and re-do everything you'd previously accomplished. (Hence the "5 of 6 keys" example. You die after finding 5 of those 6, you're starting over at 0 of 6, and you have to pick up the first 5 again.)
Also, the quest system is severely limited - you get one quest at a time (all other quest givers disappear when you accept a single quest) so there's no way of completing multiple objectives at the same time. And many quests send you into the same places you just cleared in a previous quest, but everything's respawned so you have to re-do it all over again. Couple that with the lack of a decent save feature and you're forced to replay a lot of content repeatedly in a single playthrough - and you STILL only get maybe 7-8 hours out of the game.
Really, it has some potential, but in its current state it's nowhere near worth playing. This is another situation where the demo carefully masks the problems with the full game, so going by that brief experience isn't going to help. Just look at the Metacritic scores - 47 / 100 and 5.5 out of 10 aren't the hallmarks of a quality game.
