Shaki
Arbiter
I did Waterport/Lochs areas first, and had already maxed lethal blow + had very high speed on most of my chars, so maybe that's the difference. Never even noticed Naga fighters being capable of instakills, maybe their speed just sucks enough that they never actually got the chance to do it to me. I'm 100% sure none of my chars died even once during the whole Megalith run.
Still, as I said, combat wasn't the only problem, the amount of it and overall the dungeon feeling pretty meh and uninspired was the bigger issue. Like, the "pull the chain to close the pit somewhere, to find another chain to close another pit, to find another chain to close another pit..." thing was fun for some time on the first floor where I encountered it, but after like 3 floors of doing it on every step, it was just tiring. Actually was there any other puzzle or interesting mechanic in the whole dungeon? I remember nothing but pulling chains and fastforwarding fights for hours. Oh, and I think there also was an absolutely pointless "puzzle", or more like a fetchquest, with statuettes and pedestals.
Idk, I was just super hyped going into Megalith, it looked cool as hell from the outside, but at the end I felt nothing but disappointment and actually dropped the game for like 2 days. Whole thing just felt bad.
Some other sections, like Pyramid or Skulheim for example, which I did later, were also super easy for my party, but I remember them fondly and enjoyed the shit out of them. 95% of the game was pure goodness, while Megalith is just an absolutely boring slog in my memory, and I would rather get waterboarded than replay it. Only part of the game, where I had to force myself to push through and didn't find anything enjoyable about it.
