This means that not only is the game extremely difficult, but
the unbalanced magic system is still there too, thus rendering the games Mages completely useless and underpowered as you expect to fight some of the stronger monsters and enemies in the later stages.
Escape Dead Island has a fairly liberal checkpoint
system though, so I never found myself with too much time lost, and certainly not as much time lost as some of the
unbalanced later encounters in the game that were only beaten through enemies getting stuck, about 45 rounds of shotgun ammo fired wildly in no certain direction, and perhaps my wife doing some kind of voodoo
magic so that I would stop cursing at the TV.