EDIT.
Now wouldn't u guess...the hero died, and some guy had the idea of making the game auto-save whenever a hero dies. Tell me isn't that incredibly smart and gorgeous? So I lost my favorite character in this endeavor and I just wanted everyone to know what a great thing can happen...gee...by the way I am not sure the game auto-saves when u complete a quest but they made sure it does when u die so u can want to delete the game from your pc and forget very fast about it. I am so frustrated. Well that's it I really don't have any words to praise this game because of this....you know it's like while playing the game my approval of it went only up and up for example starting from 60 and going +5 +7+10 and when that "thing" happened it just went on -74 or so...ah crap I don't even want to hear of this game in the next 2 weeks.
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Ok. It seems you get a backup save in mydocuments/... I checked for that sooner and replaced the old save but didn't look for the time change...so when I loaded that save I saw the kingdom view again and I thought the hero is lost, and didn't check any further. So it was a misunderstanding of mine, but now I changed the rating. The game is fine after all. However there is a bugged quest: Wedding. But it can be done.
So final words are: decent continuation of the series, with a new interesting interface and system.