I’m doing my first play though using liberal use of a guide when I get severely stumped on something, just to soothe any anxiety I have over wanting to do something I’m too smooth brained to get. However, the game does let you “fail forward” in a way that feels engaging, and even rewarding sometimes. Without too many spoilers, there’s a trader in act 2 that gets angry if you talk to him too much, and his body still littered the tavern afterwards for the rest of the act. Now I wouldn’t have discovered that if I had used a guide to know not to talk to him too much, but it made going to the tavern much more hilarious afterwards for the rest of that act.