LogFAQs > #968201518

My takeaway was practically the inverse. The early game suffers from imbalanced difficulty (either some red dude does scratch damage to you, or some blue dude shreds practically your entire health bar in one hit) and ridiculous levels of tedium from your weapons breaking in just a few swings, but from what I've seen of people playing the game in a much later state, these issues aren't nearly as noticeable.