Me at the beginning: “hell yeah I’m so smart”
Me now: “I’m dumb as hell”

The lack of permance gets to be more and more problematic as you go on too.

I love the game, but it would still be very difficult even if you got to keep all of your items permanently, books from the library, etc.

At some point I’ll cave and watch how far others have gotten, but I’m not there yet.