Better late than never...
The battle system is basic, and yet it's flawed. You die very, very easily and sometimes from silly little animals. I find that to tbe strange.
Make sure you install the community patch if you want to play/replay this game! The community patch installs all the offical patches, but it also adds fixes which were not officially released, but greatly improve the game both in content and performance.
For all the marks missed in this game, a lot were hit dead-on and I'm very happy to have picked this game up. Thanks.