Ehhh I'd say log horizhon feel like someone who played MMO, but thought that getting to max level meant you finished the game (when really it means you finished the tutorial). There's so many situation where they make a big deal out of something trivial, like the low level orc invasion, which should have been easily resolved by anyone with a couple of level, as any MMO player who went back to low level area could tell you.
Wasn't really for me, I'm not a fan of the ''genius'' character, because they usually are kinda dumb but opposing extremely dumb people, almost all the scheme in S1 would fall completely flat if they were up against someone even just mildly stupid, and they almost all have solution that are far less risky.
But what really killed S1 was the children dungeon arc, again, feel like it was written by someone who kinda played MMO, but never really finished any.