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It depends what you mean by 'going through the motions', but Awakening isn't a difficult game at all on Normal difficulty, especially for someone who's been playing so much of the series recently. If it's more about engagement in general, I think Awakening gets better when you play around with it and extract everything you can out of the mechanics rather than play through it relatively vanilla. Maybe that's a mark against the game compared to others that are more plug-in-and-play, but I think it gives it more replayability as a trade-off.