I really think this game is one of those last hurrahs from that highly-praised period before games started to help players along at every step of the way. It's so hard to improve or understand this game with anything but trial-and-error and practice, practice, practice. I can see myself going back to it years down the line when I'm done with this whole shebang, but now is not the time.
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