Walking through the wasteland was more of a puzzle-based adventure than a fighting one.
We had to solve puzzles written in the Arcadian Language, search objects on our path, and use them in the correct sequence.
An example would be finding the immortal eyes of a gorgon in an ancient grave and then using them to unlock the mechanical array of the next area. Or finding the lost key behind a small ruin we happened to come across and using it to open a small box we found later in the desert, which had the missing part of an array we would require later.
It was fun at first, but after doing it more than 4 times, it honestly became a chore.
Even after knowing all the lore, the Arcadian Language that played a major part in the puzzles and the secret hidden ways to stay away from encountered monsters based on the descriptive lore that I had known, we were somehow able to cross a huge amount of the wasteland without needing to use any of the items we had.
